What's the minimum classpath for an Axis2 client?

Question

I want to build an Axis2 client (I\'m only accessing a remote web service, I\'m not implementing one!) with Maven2 and I don\'t want to add 21MB of JARs to my project.

Answer 1

For those using Gradle, here I exclude unnecessary libraries:

dependencies {

    ext.compileEx = { lib, exModules, exGroups ->
        compile (lib) {
            exModules.each { exclude module : "$it" }
            exGroups.each  { exclude group: "$it" }
        }
    }

    List axisExModules = [ 'axiom-compat', 'jaxen', 'apache-mime4j-core' ]
    List axisExGroups  = [ 'javax.servlet', 'commons-fileupload', 'org.apache.woden',
                           'javax.ws.rs', 'org.apache.geronimo.specs', 'org.codehaus.woodstox' ]
    compileEx ('org.apache.axis2:axis2-adb:1.6.3', axisExModules, axisExGroups)
    compileEx ('org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-local:1.6.3', axisExModules, axisExGroups)
    compileEx ('org.apache.axis2:axis2-transport-http:1.6.3', axisExModules, axisExGroups)

}

Here is my original post in the Gradle forums.