How can I export a FULL war file from eclipse that bundles maven dependencies ?

Question

I have an eclipse WTP app using the M2 plugin. I exported it and it runs fine on my machine, but I believe this is because it references my local maven repo.

How can I get it to bundle the jars from the maven repo into the war file ?

Is there a simple way to do this in eclipse with the M2 plugin >? Im afraid that if I muck with the pom.xml, which works so beautifully right now, that I will get sucked into a black hole of maven mysteries....

Answer 1

Your pom.xml should contain:

<packaging>war</packaging>

This makes maven bundle all the dependencies* get bundled in WEB-INF/lib of the war.

Then you run mvn:package and the resultant war is placed in the /target folder of your project.

*some dependencies with scopes different from the default aren't included