Maven update jar before packaging in WAR

Question

I have a project where I am packaging a WAR using simple maven-war-plugin. Along with all other dependencies one of the dependency say 'abc.jar' which is getting packaged in war contains a default spring configurations which I would like to update with the custom one before packaging. I have maven profile configured to be activated if following build command applied;

mvn clean install -DframeworkPacakging=XYZ

I am trying to use 'truezip-maven-plugin' to overwrite my custom spring configurations inside in 'abc.jar' present in 'target/aretfacts-id/WEB-INF/lib' but when maven-war-plugin finishes I loose my changes because war plugin takes the file from dependency definition. How can I solve this issue and what are my options?

P.S. Distributing configuration is not desirable as this setup would be used for Embedded Jetty Server running within Eclipse

Answer 1

1. to prevent inclusion of the original jar file, I would use go for approach suggested on: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg38537.html

   Use <scope>provided</scope> for this dependency to keep it out of the lib directory.

2. to include the repackaged one, I'd follow suggestion from: How to make Maven copy resource file into WEB-INF/lib directory?

   Try changing the configuration of the maven war plugin to include a webResource:

   <configuration>
     <webResources>
       <resource>
         <directory>pathtorepackagedjar</directory>
         <includes>
           <include>**/abc.jar</include>
         <includes>        
        <targetPath>WEB-INF/lib</targetPath>
       </resource>
     </webResources>
   </configuration>