Maven从依赖项中删除资源

Question

I have a jgroups dependency which has a log4j2.xml in its JAR which is getting picked up by log4j instead of my config file.

How can I get Maven to exclude this file from the JAR dependencies?

...before its suggested, I can't use the system property to set the log4j2.xml file explicitly as I want to be able to start my project without setting any JVM variables in the IDE.

Answer 1

The shade plugin can exclude specific files - see here . Also I'd try if having your config file before the unwanted one on the classpath would make log4j pick yours up. Also according to the docs log4j2-test.xml and log4j2.json on the classpath have precedence over log4j2.xml unless log4j.configurationFile system property is set, which btw you can also do from maven, so you don't have to set anything in your IDE.