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Remove file from dependency jar using maven

I am trying to remove a file from a dependency jar that I am including in my war file in maven. I am deploying the war to JBoss 5.1 and the jar in question contains a persistence.xml file that I don't want.

Here's what is going on:

my-webapp.war
|
`-- WEB-INF
    |
    `-- lib
        |
        `-- dependency.jar
            |
            `-- META-INF
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                `-- persistence.xml

When I am building my war, I want to remove persistence.xml Any one have any idea if this can be done easily?

Solution

  • Not available out of the box AFAIK, you'll have to use the Maven AntRun plugin after package to do a few dirty things:

    • unzip the war in a temp directory
    • unzip the dependency in another temp directory
    • delete the file from the dependency
    • zip the temp directory of the dependency back into a jar
    • move the dependency back in the temp directory of the war
    • zip the temp directory of the webapp back into a war
    • delete the temp directory of the dependency
    • delete the temp directory of the webapp

    The following resources might help

    Now, if the problem is that JBoss is deploying the persistence unit defined in the persistence.xml (and you don't want that), there might be a better solution. It seems that you can declare files to ignore in a jboss-ignore.txt file, for example:

    WEB-INF/lib/dependency.jar/META-INF/persistence.xml

    The feature is there, but I've never used it.

    See