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Maven war packaging creating multiple version of the same SNAPSHOT jars in WEB-INF/lib

To get a war we do:

mvn clean
mvn package

Now we have a war. The WEB-INF/lib in this has duplicate SNAPSHOTs like these:

xyz-0.4.0-20111110.152222-176.jar
xyz-0.4.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

I have no idea why xyz-0.4.0-20111110.152222-176.jar is getting included.

This is happening for all my dependencies. We have a local nexus installation.

The pom.xml is very ordinary. It only has dependency for xyz-0.4.0-SNAPSHOT, and no plugin section!

Solution

  • Although i don't know exactly what the problem was, i solved it as follows:

    In my pom.xml i had reference to a dependency i.e a jar (which has a pom.xml within it too). For some reason that was causing problems. When i removed this dependency, the problem went away. Although i need this particular dependency!

    Anyways, thats what i know for now.