Is there anyway to exclude artifacts inherited from a parent POM?

Question

Artifacts from dependencies can be excluded by declaring an element inside a But in this case it\'s needed to

Answer 1

Redefine the dependency (in the child pom) with scope system pointing to an empty jar :

    dependency.coming
    from.parent
    0
    system
    ${project.basedir}/empty.jar

The jar can contain just a single empty file :

touch empty.txt
jar cvf empty.txt