Maven excluding dependencies from ear

[Shane Lee]

Maven 2.2.0
Eclipse Galileo
M2Eclipe plugin

I have three projects:
Ebusiness (parent pom)
Eagent(child of ebusiness, war)

I created a new project to deploy eagent in an ear called EbusEAR01. Below is my pom.xml for ear project:

  <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
  <artifactId>EbusEAR01</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>ear</packaging>
  <name>EbusEAR01</name>
  <description>Deploying war in an ear</description>
  
   <parent>
		<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
		<artifactId>ebusiness</artifactId>
		<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
		<relativePath>../ebusiness/pom.xml</relativePath>
	</parent> 
	
	
	<build>
        <finalName>EbusEAR01-${project.version}</finalName>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
                   <version>2.4.1</version>
                <configuration>
                 <filtering>true</filtering>
            <nonFilteredFileExtensions>
             	<nonFilteredFileExtension>jar</nonFilteredFileExtension>
           	</nonFilteredFileExtensions>

                    <generateApplicationXml>true</generateApplicationXml>
                    <earSourceExcludes>**/*.jar</earSourceExcludes>
                    <modules>
                        <webModule>
                            <groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
                            <artifactId>eagent</artifactId>
                        </webModule>
                    </modules>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
	
	
	
	
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
            <groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
            <artifactId>eagent</artifactId>
            <type>war</type>
            <version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
        </dependency>
  
  </dependencies>
</project>  

Eagent pom.xml:

 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
	<artifactId>eagent</artifactId>
	<packaging>war</packaging>
	<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<name>eAgent Web Application</name>
	<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
	<parent>
		<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
		<artifactId>ebusiness</artifactId>
		<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
		<relativePath>../ebusiness/pom.xml</relativePath>
	</parent>

	<properties>		
		<context.path>/001</context.path>
	</properties>

	<dependencies>

		<dependency>
			<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
			<artifactId>asic-common</artifactId>
			<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
			<scope>compile</scope>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
			<artifactId>portal-common</artifactId>
			<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
			<scope>compile</scope>
		</dependency>
	
		<dependency>
			<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
			<artifactId>asic-common</artifactId>
			<version>1.4-SNAPSHOT</version>
			<classifier>tests</classifier>
			<scope>test</scope>
		</dependency>	
	
	</dependencies>

	<build>
		<plugins>	
			<plugin>
				<groupId>au.gov.asic</groupId>
				<artifactId>maven-env-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>	
				<executions>
					<execution>
						<phase>process-classes</phase>
						<goals>
							<goal>applyEnvironment</goal>
						</goals>
					</execution>
				</executions>			
				<configuration>
					<envDirectory>${basedir}/../ebusiness/src/main/config/${env}</envDirectory>
					<fileNames>
						<fileName>ebusiness-environment.properties</fileName>
						<fileName>portal-environment.properties</fileName>					
					</fileNames>					
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	
		<finalName>eagent</finalName>
		<defaultGoal>package</defaultGoal>
	</build>
		
</project>
   

Now the ear contains all dependencies/jars at the root level not just inside the war. is there anyway using maven ear plugin i can exclude the jar files at the root level? i understand that all dependencies should not be at the parent level in ebusiness with scope provided but this is the way its setup and im just trying to add ear functionality. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Shane.

[Shane Lee]

Sorry my fault, i do not need parent element in ear pom.xml.