The command line is too long. in java project with maven

Question

I have maven-gwt project. It has lots of dependencies which is usual by a large project. I think it is at the limit with creation of classpath. I found some information abou

Answer 1

This seems to be a known problem with gwt-maven. There is a discussion on the gwt-maven google groups: Workaround for windows command line length limit

The problem seems to be that the sources are included on the test classpath, hence you're getting problems when you're running surefire:

The workaround is to exclude the sources dependency, make it system scope (from the above thread):

     
         
        myproject-rpc-source 
        ${project.groupId} 
        ${project.version} 
        sources 

         
        system 
        ${basedir}/../rpc/target/myproject-rpc-${project.version}-sources.jar 
     

but I would fully read and understand the google groups thread before proceeding with this.