Do NOT include compilation dependencies in production jar

[codeconsole]

Amongst other things, javax.servlet is being bundled in the production jar/war. This is supposed to be provided by the container and adds an extra 30MB++ dependency to the final distribution. api is NOT a replacement for provided

Numerous dependencies should not be part of the final build:

    95505  10-10-2024 05:33   BOOT-INF/lib/javax.servlet-api-4.0.1.jar
   141302  10-09-2024 06:27   BOOT-INF/lib/ant-junit-1.10.14.jar
   384581  10-09-2024 06:16   BOOT-INF/lib/junit-4.13.2.jar
    78743  10-11-2024 06:28   BOOT-INF/lib/javax.el-api-3.0.1-b06.jar
   237335  10-10-2024 05:33   BOOT-INF/lib/javax.el-3.0.1-b12.jar
   792399  10-10-2024 05:33   BOOT-INF/lib/spring-test-5.3.39.jar
    15071  10-10-2024 05:33   BOOT-INF/lib/jta-1.1.jar
    82803  10-10-2024 05:31   BOOT-INF/lib/groovy-ant-3.0.21.jar
  2303167  10-09-2024 06:27   BOOT-INF/lib/ant-1.10.14.jar
    18871  10-09-2024 06:27   BOOT-INF/lib/ant-launcher-1.10.14.jar

[codeconsole]

https://github.com/grails/grails-core/blob/37a284dc980122fb394804ca139f8237c91a5e8a/grails-core/build.gradle#L73-L74

37a284d

[codeconsole]

Deferred until 7.0

[jeffscottbrown]

Amongst other things, javax.servlet is being bundled in the production jar/war.

Does it need to be bundled in order for an executable jar to function?

[codeconsole]

Amongst other things, javax.servlet is being bundled in the production jar/war.

Does it need to be bundled in order for an executable jar to function?

@jeffscottbrown no, not at all. It is never needed. The embedded server will include it's own version of the servlet api resulting it being there 2x.

[jeffscottbrown]

The embedded server will include it's own version of the servlet api resulting it being there 2x.

Thank you!

[jdaugherty]

This appears to still be an issue with the latest 7.x code line in a war file: