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

I really needed to do this dirty thing... Here is how

I redefined those dependencies with scope test. Scope provided did not work for me.

We use spring Boot plugin to build fat jar. We have module common which defines common libraries, for example Springfox swagger-2. My super-service needs to have parent common (it does not want to do so, but company rules force!)

So my parent or commons has pom.

    

    
        
            io.springfox
            springfox-swagger2
            ${swagger.version}
            
                
                    com.google.guava
                    guava
                
            
        
        
            io.springfox
            springfox-swagger-ui
            ${swagger.version}
        
        
            io.springfox
            springfox-bean-validators
            ${swagger.version}
        

       
        
            junit
            junit
            ${junit.version}
        
        
            org.apache.poi
            poi-ooxml
            ${apache.poi.version}
        
    

And my super-service pom.

super-service

    com.company
    common
    1




    

    
        io.springfox
        springfox-swagger2
        test
    
    
        io.springfox
        springfox-bean-validators
        test
    
    
        io.springfox
        springfox-core
        2.8.0
        test
    

    

    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-web
    
     
        junit
        junit
    
    
        org.apache.poi
        poi-ooxml
    

This is size of the final fat artifact

82.3 MB (86,351,753 bytes) - redefined dependency with scope test
86.1 MB (90,335,466 bytes) - redefined dependency with scope provided
86.1 MB (90,335,489 bytes) - without exclusion

Also this answer is worth mentioning - I wanted to do so, but I am lazy... https://stackoverflow.com/a/48103554/4587961