maven packaging is not including dependent jars

[dhoni Gibson]

Hi All,

MY APPLICATION STRUCTURE :My project (let us say AAA) which has packaging as JAR. project AAA is added dependent for web project BBB and BBB inturn module for CCC which is an EAR.

while doing AAA project maven build, maven is not including the dependent jars as part of packaging, and deployment eventually fails when i deploy the ear package.

questions

1) how to make common libraries share among parent and child projects so that avoid duplicates
2) how to include individual project libraries (which is not common) during maven build

Thanks
Dhoni

[Peter Johnson]

I think that what you are looking for is the Assembly plugin (http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/). It will create a JAR file that contains all of the classes from dependencies. The Jar plugin only includes classes that the project compiled.