Java – include dependencies in Maven assemblies instead of actual artifacts

I want to create a maven assembly that contains the delivery dependencies of the artifact, not the artifact itself I tried to exclude an artifact from the assembly, but the result did not include its dependencies

Artifacta has dependencya and dependencyb

Assembly should contain dependencya, dependencyb (without artifacta)

I prefer to do this without explicitly specifying the dependencies to include in the assembly, because this will be done through multiple projects with many dependencies

thank you!

Solution

I finally started working This generates artifacts that contain only the dependencies of the dependencies

POM xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>moduletest</groupId>
    <artifactId>moduletest</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>dependency</groupId>
            <artifactId>dependency</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                    <descriptors>
                        <descriptor>assembly.xml</descriptor>
                    </descriptors>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

assembly. xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<assembly xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/assembly/1.1.2 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/assembly-1.1.2.xsd">

    <id>module</id>

    <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>

    <formats>
        <format>zip</format>
    </formats>

    <dependencySets>
        <dependencySet>
            <excludes>
                <exclude>dependency:dependency</exclude>
            </excludes>
            <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
            <useTransitiveDependencies>true</useTransitiveDependencies>
        </dependencySet>
    </dependencySets>

</assembly>