war project dependency in maven

Question

I need to access one bean class from war project into my another war project. The bean class is exists in MyProject. I wrote pom of another project called NewProject as follows.

<groupId>MyProject</groupId>
    <artifactId>MyProject</artifactId>
    <version>1</version> 
</parent>
<artifactId>MyProject</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>

Is it possible to add war dependency in another war project?

Answer 1

If you configure the maven-war-plugin with the following attribute:

<attachClasses>true</attachClasses>

you would get an supplemental artifact with the following coordinates:

<dependency>
  <groupId>myGroup</groupId>
  <artifactId>myArtifact</artifactId>
  <version>myVersion</myVersion>
 <classifier>classes</classifier>
</dependency>

which contains all classes within your war project which can be used as dependency which is a jar file which will solve your problem.