In my parent pom I build 2 modules: Commons is a dependency of CoreUnit, but I want to build it seperately and exclude it from the CoreUnit
<modules>
<module>Commons</module>
<module>CoreUnit</module>
</modules>
CoreUnit pom:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5.1</version>
<configuration>
<filters>
<filter>
<artifact>com.asi:Commons</artifact>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*</exclude>
</excludes>
</filter>
</filters>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/../Build</outputDirectory>
<archive>
<manifest>
<mainClass>com.asi.coreunit.Main</mainClass>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
The trouble starts when adding the so called "excluded dependency" pom build node. Here is Commons pom:
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.5.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3.0</version>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/../Build</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Then, the coreunit.jar is not excluding the commons anymore