I've upgraded from milestone-3 to milestone-8a and noticed a problem when I generate manifest files in a WAR.

I set excludes for some of the transitive dependencies (like the JTA jar file), however in milestone-8a these excluded dependencies are getting included in the generated manifest file.

I normally use a local Ivy repository (which does include the JTA) however for the purposes of a simple re-creatable the example below uses maven central.

apply plugin: 'war'

repositories {
mavenCentral()
}

configurations {
warManifest
}

dependencies {

warManifest group: 'cglib', name: 'cglib-nodep', version: '2.1_3'
warManifest group: "jboss", name: "jboss-archive-browsing", version: "2.0.2.alpha"

//hibernate has dependencies on older versions of these JAR's - override to use our versions
warManifest ("jboss:javassist:3.4.ga")

warManifest ('org.hibernate:hibernate:3.2.5.ga') {
force = true
exclude module: 'jta'
exclude module: 'cglib'
}

warManifest (group: "org.hibernate", name: "hibernate-entitymanager", version: "3.3.1.ga", configuration: "default") {
exclude module: 'persistence-api'
exclude module: 'jboss-common-core'
}
}

war {
baseName = 'test'
dependsOn jar
classpath = jar.archivePath

doFirst {
manifest {
attributes(
"Class-Path": configurations.warManifest.collect

.sort().join(' ') )
}
}
}

When I run the war task I get the error below. As you can see the error occurs resolving javax.transaction:jta:1.0.1B - which should have been excluded. This runs OK on milestone-3. Has something changed around the WAR task or the way excluded dependencies are managed? I've read through the release notes etc for all the releases between milestone-3 and 8 but didn't spot anything.

F:\tmp\gradle-exclude-test>gradle clean war
:clean
:compileJava
:processResources UP-TO-DATE
:classes
:jar
:war

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where:
  Build file 'F:\tmp\gradle-exclude-test\build.gradle' line: 39

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':war'.
  > Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':warManifest'.
  > Artifact 'javax.transaction:jta:1.0.1B@jar' not found.

• Try:
  Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED