Excluding “provided” dependencies from Maven assembly

Question

I am trying to use the Maven assembly plugin to build a jar-with-dependencies, except those that have provided scope.

I have copied the jar-with-dependencie

Answer 1

With the latest Maven (I was testing on Maven 3.0) this appears to work as expected, with some caveats:

The requested scope (in the dependencySet) may include additional scopes based on the following definition: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Dependency_Scope

Thus, if you request compile scope you will get both compile and provided. However, if you request runtime scope you should get compile and runtime (but not provided).