In NetBeans 8, in a Maven based project, how to use jar while programming but omit from assembly?

I need to access some specific classes in a specific JDBC in my Vaadin . But in web apps, we usually don't link JDBC drivers inside our assembly ( jar file ) to be on the classpath while I edit my code and compile. But this jar file must be omitted from the assembly.

exclusions

Tag

I tried to add tags exclusions

and exclusion

to the element dependency

. But it didn't work - postgresql-9.4-1201.jdbc41.jar

appeared in the folder WEB-INF/lib

.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>
    <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
    <version>9.4-1201-jdbc41</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <groupId>org.postgresql</groupId>  Exclude from build 
            <artifactId>postgresql</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>

      

        
        
        
      

    

New profile?

The answer to this question is ZNK-M , Setting up custom run path for maven project in netbeans , maybe what I need.

But creating a new project profile seems like overkill, which seems like a small little task to me. And I always want to exclude this jar from my build output, not just when testing or other limited scenarios.

You have to add a new run-with-netbeans profile in your pom that declares additional dependencies (use the scope provided to not include them in the release).

Then you will need to add a new profile to your IDE to run the pom with the -P run-with-netbeans option on the command line.

But I'm only familiar with the basics of editing a POM file . If this approach is the way to go, it would be helpful if someone could expand on the details and necessary steps.