War's - How to exclude bundling of jars in WEB-INF/lib? They are caused because of transitive depedencies

[Sanjay Choudhary]

Let us assume that we have an EAR which is dependent on Struts-x version.

Ear          dependent on Struts
    java 1   dependent on Struts
    java 2
    web     dependent on Struts



Now when we build, our EAR contains struts-x.jar and all the other
transitive dependencies of struts.  Since our classloader policy for EAR is
"application", we don't want struts-x.jar and transitive dependencies in
web/web-inf/lib.  To avoid this, in the web project pom.xml we defined

<dependency>
     <groupId>struts</groupId>
     <artifactId>struts</artifactId>
     <version>1.1</version>
     <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

By doing this, I am able to avoid bundling of struts.jar in web-inf/lib
folder in WAR but all the transitive dependent jars are still bundled in the
WAR.  Is there a way to avoid this?

-Sanjay