How to prevent JavaExec task from copying jars

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How do I prevent a task of type JavaExec, which is defined in a project that uses the war plugin, from copying jars from dependent projects’ into the project’s exploded war folder?

I have a war.finalizedBy explodedWar and explodedWar is of type Sync

I’m not sure how the JavaExec task knows where to copy the jars, since no dependencies are defined in the task. I noticed that it does have dependencies on classes and jar.

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There’s something in your build that makes this happen. Perhaps that’s the behavior of your ‘explodedWar’ task, which your ‘JavaExec’ task somehow triggers (e.g. by depending on ‘war’).