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

There is an easier way:

configurations {    
    provided
    provided.extendsFrom(compile)
}

and then you can:

dependencies {  
    provided group: 'javax.servlet', name: 'javax.servlet-api', version:'3.+' 
}

You will also want to have the provided libraries in the generated project files of Eclipse or Idea:

idea.module.scopes.PROVIDED.plus += configurations.provided
eclipse.classpath.plusConfigurations += configurations.provided