War with no jars!

In my previous post I spoke about jars.txt and how to add a jar in a WAR virtually and from several sources (mvn, http, file…).

Now to use it in a more enterprise environment you can use the dedicated maven plugin.

TomEE: A war without dependencies?

TomEE already supports to enrich an application with dependencies through ClassLoaderConfigurer configuration or using VirtualWebAppClassLoader of Tomcat. The first one has the drawback to be configured in the container and the second to not be very configurable/extensible.

That’s why we now have jars.txt!