Gradle Eclipse WTP: war file is included in another war file

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Gradle Eclipse WTP: war file is included in another war file

I have two web projects (wars) A and B. B depends on A. When I build B, A will be included as A.jar in WEB-INF B as expected.

I am also using Gradle eclipse and eclipseWtp plugins to create Eclipse projects. When I deploy B to Tomcat via Eclipse and browse the deployment directory, I find A.war instead of A.jar in B's WEB-INF directory . This obviously won't work. Also, if A has other JAR dependencies, even those not included in WEB-INF from B.

I created a simple test for this. It can be downloaded from the link below. Import projects to eclipse and deploy to tomcat via Eclipse. Then go to deployment location> WEB-INF / lib. You will find A.war there. There is no point in including a completely built war. I expected A.jar (and any jars that A depends on)

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
    }
}

subprojects {
    apply plugin: 'java'
    apply plugin: 'war'
    apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
}

project(':A') {

}

project(':B') {
    dependencies {
        compile project(':A')
    }
}