Generate an xml file with all dependencies with maven

Question

I need to generate module.xml file for JBoss7 for a maven project which has a lot of jar-dependencies. What is the easiest way to do it? The file looks like:

Answer 1

You could try smartics-jboss-modules-maven-plugin

It provides quite powerful dependency control:

• exclusions and inclusions (also with wildcards) of project deps,
• definition of deps to other JBoss modules,
• transitive dependencies handling
• and lot more

With proper descriptor, generated module is ready to be copied 'as is' to JBoss 7.

Example jboss-modules/foo.bar.foo-module.xml:

    
        
            
                foo.*
            
            
                org.*
            
        
        
            org.slf4j.slf4j-api
        
    

    
        
            
        
    

Also set excludeDependencyManagementDependenciesInPomProject to true in smartic plugin configuration to avoid including 50 MB of deps :)