Exclude parent pom plugin dependency in child pom

Question

Maven plugin and its dependency defined in parent pom and I do not want my child pom to include that plugin dependency.

For example, if there is 1 parent and 100 children, 99 use that plugin and want to exclude that plugin in one child.

How could we achieve this one?

Possible duplicate of [Struggling with Maven parent/child plugin configuration inheritance](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14648556/struggling-with-maven-parent-child-plugin-configuration-inheritance) — question_maven_com, Oct 31 '17 at 13:45
You may find this useful: [Is there anyway to exclude artifacts inherited from a parent POM?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2681759/is-there-anyway-to-exclude-artifacts-inherited-from-a-parent-pom). — gjoranv, Oct 31 '17 at 18:50

user8862215 · Answer 1 · 2017-11-07T11:18:07.730

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I found the answer. In parent pom, we should include child details as in below to remove this plugin dependency in child.
<build>
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.17</version>
    <configuration>
      <classpathDependencyExcludes>
        <classpathDependencyExclude>${child-dependency-groupId}:${child-dependency-artifactId}</classpathDependencyExclude>
      </classpathDependencyExcludes>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>
</plugins>

edited Nov 07 '17 at 11:18

answered Nov 06 '17 at 06:26

user8862215

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Welcome to Stack Overflow! This is really a comment/question edit, not an answer. – Filnor Nov 07 '17 at 10:12

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 07 '17 at 22:36

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Instead of configuring the plugin in <plugins> section, you should do the job in <pluginManagement>

see https://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Plugin_Management for more details

answered Nov 07 '17 at 22:36

hboutemy

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Exclude parent pom plugin dependency in child pom

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