Ant: How to include only certain transitive dependencies from the artifact?

Question

Just as an example, suppose I only need hamcrest in junit:

<dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.7">
    <include name="hamcrest*"/>
</dependency>

However it seems ant still pulls everything in junit. Maybe I misunderstood something?

Answer 1

Hamcrest is not longer a junit dependency. Take a look at the POM file for the module, the dependencies section is empty:

• junit 4.7

Reportedly it has been incorporated into the junit jar (See MAVENUPLOAD-1651 )

This explains why the following dependency will only retrieve a single jar:

<dependency org="junit" name="junit" rev="4.7"/>