How to include system dependencies in war built using maven

Solution 1:

Let me try to summarise the options I tried :

<packagingIncludes>${java.home}/lib/jfxrt.jar</packagingIncludes>

This doesn't work! Also, only having the jar name, excludes everything else, so if you are willing to try then try

<packagingIncludes>${java.home}/lib/jfxrt.jar,**/*</packagingIncludes>

Jatin's answer seemed a bit complex and I tried going through the POM again & again to figure out where exactly were the system jars mentioned to be included in WEB-INF POM.

Anyways, I ended up using this solution, which wasn't working at first but after some time and some corrections worked :

I installed the jar in my local repository using the below command :

mvn install:install-file -Dfile="C:\Users\hp\Documents\NetBeansProjects\TwitterAndLoginRadiusMaven\lib\LoginRadius-1.0.jar" -DgroupId=LoginRadius -DartifactId=LoginRadius -Dversion=1.0 -Dpackaging=jar`

After running the above command, I changed the dependency in POM to

<dependency>
   <groupId>LoginRadius</groupId>
   <artifactId>LoginRadius</artifactId>
   <!--<scope>system</scope>-->
   <version>1.0</version>
   <!--<systemPath>${basedir}\lib\LoginRadius-1.0.jar</systemPath>-->
</dependency>

NOTE - See I've commented the system scope & systemPath.

Building the war now, includes this LoginRadius-1.0.jar in WEB-INF/lib

Solution 2:

If by chance you can't install the third party library to your local repository, due to some silly naming/packaging checks by the third party, you can still add your system scoped dependencies to your final package at build time (at least if you are building a webapp) using the maven-war-plugin where you would need to create a configuration like this.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.2.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <failOnMissingWebXml>true</failOnMissingWebXml>
        <webResources>
            <resource>
               <directory>path/to/lib/in/project</directory>
               <targetPath>WEB-INF/lib</targetPath>
            </resource>
        </webResources>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Not sure but I believe that the library must be somewhere local to the project's base directory. I tend to create a directory under src/main/ called lib to hold these sorts of 3rd party libs. During build process they are placed in the correct directory and added to the war file.

Solution 3:

You can configure the war plugin to have all or some jar included or excluded as per your need as mentioned below. Simple & works

           <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <configuration>
                    <webResources>
                        <resource>
                            <directory>${project.basedir}\lib</directory>
                            <targetPath>WEB-INF/lib</targetPath>
                            <filtering>false</filtering>
                            <includes>
                                <include>**/*.jar</include>
                            </includes>
                            <excludes>
                                <include>**/javax.servlet-api-3.1.0.jar</include>
                            </excludes>
                        </resource>
                    </webResources>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Solution 4:

If you meant as jar dependencies, then below is a sample pom.xml which takes are needed files and generates a war file:

 <build>
        <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>
        <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
        <testSourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
        <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/target/classes</outputDirectory>
        <testOutputDirectory>${project.basedir}/target/test-classes</testOutputDirectory>
        <resources>
            <resource>
                <directory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
            </resource>
        </resources>
        <testResources>
            <testResource>
                <directory>${project.basedir}/src/test/resources</directory>
            </testResource>
        </testResources>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.0.2</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <source>1.5</source>
                        <target>1.5</target>
                        <debug>true</debug>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
                <plugin>
                    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.4</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <includeEmptyDirs>true</includeEmptyDirs>
                        <webResources>
                            <resource>
                                <directory>ui</directory>
                                <targetPath></targetPath>
                                <includes>
                                    <include>**</include>
                                </includes>
                            </resource>
                            <resource>
                                <directory>lib</directory>
                                <targetPath>WEB-INF</targetPath>
                                <includes>
                                    <include>**/*.xml</include>
                                    <include>**/log4j.properties</include>
                                </includes>
                            </resource>
//edited below
                            <resource>
                               <directory>lib</directory>
                               <targetPath>WEB_INF/lib</targetPath>
                               <includes>
                                    <include>**/*.jar</include>
                               </includes>
                            </resource>
                        </webResources>
                        <webXml>${project.basedir}/WEB-INF/web.xml</webXml>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>

                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
                    <executions>
                        <execution>
                            <id>attach-sources</id>
                            <goals>
                                <goal>jar</goal>
                            </goals>
                        </execution>
                    </executions>
                </plugin>

            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3.2</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.6</source>
                    <target>1.6</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

Solution 5:

Based on your initial POM, I would suggest to send them directly to the WEB-INF/lib directory

                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}/WEB-INF/lib</outputDirectory>
                    </configuration>