Eclipse: Include dependencies of other project in WAR

Question

In Eclipse, I have two projects. One is a Web-Project which should be exported as a WAR-File. The second one is a Java-project which exists only to bundle several dependency-jars. (Since it's a lot of jars and they don't exist in maven repo, having a project for them seemed the easiest solution to bundle them together)

Now the Web-Project depends on having the JARs from the dependency-project in WEB-INF/lib-Folder. I already performed the following steps:

Include JARs in Build-Path of Dependency-Project
Export all the JARs from Dependency-Project (using Order and Export tab)
Include Dependency-Project in Web-Projects Build-Path
Add Dependency-Project to Deployment Assembly of Web-Project using Deploy Path WEB-INF/lib/dependencies.jar (suggested here)

But even though the Dependency-Project is included in Deployment Assembly, it is not exported in the WAR-File. Am I missing a step?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 16 '17 at 07:44

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You could install the jars as maven dependencies by phantasy groupid, phantasy artifactid and phantasy version.

answered Mar 16 '17 at 07:44

Grim

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I already thought about that, but it's about 50 JARs, so this would be a lot of work. Do you have any other suggestion? – SilverNak Mar 16 '17 at 07:53
You could create a script to work for all the 50 jars. Are you using windows? – Grim Mar 16 '17 at 08:26
Yes, but when I use Maven, the jars should be deployed to a Nexus repository – SilverNak Mar 16 '17 at 08:47
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@SilverNak This may help: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-remote.html – Grim Mar 16 '17 at 09:17

Eclipse: Include dependencies of other project in WAR

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