Question

I’d like to remove log4j from WAR built by Grails. My jboss has it already deployed.
I was trying:

grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
    ...
    dependencies {
        provided 'log4j:log4j:1.2.16'
    }
}

But it doesn’t work. After a build the WAR still contains log4j-1.2.16.jar. What to do?

Answer 1

Put this in bottom of BuildConfig.groovy:

grails.war.resources = { stagingDir ->
   delete(file:"${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/lib/log4j-1.2.16.jar")
}