Remove file from dependency jar using maven

Question

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 persis

Answer 1

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

• ant task to remove files from a jar
• RE: Removing a file from .jar file

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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

• Excluding persistence.xml from deployment
• JBoss5 custom metadata files