I have a multi-project Gradle build structure, where child project depends on a JAR, which I don't want to be in WAR file. I tried "exclude" but it does not work.
The main project script:
apply plugin: 'war'
war {
dependencies {
runtime (project(':childProject')) {
exclude group: 'javax.servlet.jsp', module: 'jsp-api'
}
}
}
The childProject script:
apply plugin: 'java'
dependencies {
compile 'javax.servlet.jsp:jsp-api'
}
The default behavior of the War task is to copy the content of src/main/webapp to the root of the archive. Your webapp directory may of course contain a WEB-INF sub-directory, which may contain all the dependencies of the runtime [1] configuration to WEB-INF/lib.
So to avoid load of other jar files or to decrease war file size, you may have to exclude jars during packaging. So, try adding rootSpec.exclude("/*.jar")** to exclude jars in war file like below.
war {
archiveName = "newproject.war"
rootSpec.exclude("**/*.jar")
destinationDir = buildDir
}