如何在maven中使PROVIDED为POM类型依赖项

Question

I am using the below dependency in my pom file for resolving compilation error. I have make its scope to provided but still the the related dependency jars are added while building the WAR file. Kindly do help me about how to proceed on this.

Thanks in advance!

    <dependency>
        <groupId>groupId</groupId>
        <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
        <version>version</version>
        <type>pom</type>            
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

Answer 1

you sure that the dependency with scope provided is not getting included as part of some other dependency ? have you checked the dependency graph of your pom ?