How do I extract an external WAR dependency into a web project?

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1

Just tried with a simple zip task like this first:

configurations {
  caswebapp
}
  dependencies {
  caswebapp('org.jasig.cas:cas-server-webapp:3.4.10:war') {
    transitive = false
  }
}
  task makeZip(type: Zip) {
  from configurations.caswebapp
}

This does not create anything, as it seems WARs are filtered out from the configuration. As you might have guessed, I’m trying to create an “overlayed” WAR.

2

The solution is quite simple: just delete 4 characters (’:war’):

dependencies {
  caswebapp('org.jasig.cas:cas-server-webapp:3.4.10') {
    transitive = false
  }
}