Exclude all transitive dependencies of a single dependency

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What has worked for me (may be a newer feature of Maven) is merely doing wildcards in the exclusion element.

I have a multi-module project that contains an “app” module that is referenced in two WAR-packaged modules. One of those WAR-packaged modules really only needs the domain classes (and I haven’t separated them out of the app module yet). I found this to work:

<dependency>
    <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
    <artifactId>app</artifactId>
    <version>${project.version}</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>*</groupId>
            <artifactId>*</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

The wildcard on both groupId and artifactId exclude all dependencies that normally would propagate through to the module using this dependency.

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