providedCompile without war plugin

Question

I want to reuse certain filter for many projects so I want to extract it and use a single jar to just add it to any Web App.

For building I am using Gradle 1.3 and t

Answer 1

As of Gradle 2.12 the issue of defining compile only dependencies is finally solved in a simple and natural manner by the new "copmpileOnly" configuration:

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5'
}