How to prevent duplicate servlet jar using eclipse+m2eclipse

I'm using Eclipse + Maven + m2eclipse to build and test a web application in Apache Tomcat.

I've configured a Tomcat server inside Eclipse, and configured the deployment assembly for my web app, including "Maven Dependencies" (specialization of Java Build Path Entries).

When I deploy and start the server, Tomcat/Catalina always warns me:

INFO: validateJarFile(/projects/src/main/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/servlet-api-2.5.jar) - jar not loaded. See Servlet Spec 2.3, section 9.7.2. Offending class: javax/servlet/Servlet.class

This is because m2eclipse sees servlet-api-2.5 as a dependency of my project, and considers it as part of "Maven Dependencies", and copies it as part of the deployment assembly, but the Tomcat servlet container has its own copy of this and doesn't like seeing 2 copies on the class path.

I've marked the dependency from my project to servlet-api-2.5 in my pom.xml with

<scope>
provided
</scope>

which does prevent standalone Maven from packaging servlet-api-2.5 into my builds, but m2eclipse doesn't see it that way.

(This isn't a huge deal because the warning is harmless, I only see it during testing inside the IDE, and real customers won't see it, but I'd still like to know how to fix it because I like cleanliness and I like knowing how things work.)

Is there a correct way to tell m2eclipse not to deploy this file, or to tell Eclipse not to let m2eclipse have the final say on which dependencies are runtime dependencies?

I did find https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-1193 which mentions

the "Maven Dependencies" container reflects test compile time scope, so it is supposed to have dependencies with scope "provided"

Install extras for m2eclipse plugin ("Maven Integration for WTP") from update site http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras. After install, update the project configuration.

I have just had a similar problem, and believe I have got to the bottom of it.

If you go to your server configuration settings in Eclipse and select "Serve Modules without Publishing" then this should no longer occur.

Maven/M2Eclipse is building the WAR correctly - servlet-api-2.5.jar wont be in your target directories or WAR file.

But the problem is, when you deploy the application via eclipse on to your tomcat, Eclipse does not use your maven built WAR/target directories as default, it just uses the normal Eclipse "export" settings for your project. So it sees in your "Java EE Modules" (or "Deployment Assembly List" if you are using Helios) the list of all the jars in your Maven_Dependencies, but it does not respect the scope, and just deploys all the jars.

If you select serve without publishing option then Eclipst/Tomcat should just run the app straight off your target directory so will respect the maven scopes.

It won't ever affect your live deployments (unless you are deploying via eclipse!) as maven is doing the right thing, but it can sometimes cause problems locally as you can ave conflicting servlet/jsp jars which can cause classcastexceptions and general misery...

Mohammed Ali

Normally there is a dependency in your project that is depending on servlet-apî.jar

The default behaviour of Maven is that i wiill try to import your dependency + the dependencies of the imported dependency.

If you want to exclude a specific "sub-dependency", you can give maven a configuration like this :

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.hpsworldwide.mbtrs.switch</groupId>
    <artifactId>YOUR_DEPENDENCY</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
            <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

then maven will import YOUR_DEPENDENCY + all YOUR_DEPENDENCY dependencies, but will exclude servlet-api from the dependencies of YOUR_DEPENDENCY.

If you are using Indigo you can find the WTP plugin by clicking to "Window" -> "Preferences" -> "Maven" -> "Discovery" -> "Open Catalog".

One tip: after install "Maven Integration for WTP" and update the project configuration, check the directory /WEB-INF/lib and delete all JARs inside. Now, clean the Tomcat work dir and run again.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5905579/how-to-prevent-duplicate-servlet-jar-using-eclipsem2eclipse

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