In my project , there is a spring XML config that utilizes ehcache to cache method returns.

xml snippet :

    http://www.springmodules.org/schema/ehcache http://www.springmodules.org/schema/cache/springmodules-ehcache.xsd

  <ehcache:config configLocation="classpath:ehcache.xml"/>

  <ehcache:proxy id="explainRetriever" refId="explainRetrieverImpl">
    <ehcache:caching methodName="get*" cacheName="explainCache"/>
  </ehcache:proxy>

but in runtime , server complains it cannot find definitions of http://www.springmodules.org/schema/ehcache , I know I have to add "spring-modules-cache.jar" to WEB-INF/lib directory.

But my project is maintained by maven , if I add "spring-modules-cache" to the runtime dependency , it will bring a lot of dependencies to my WAR file , filling my WAR with a lot of unnecessary jars. I just need one declaration in it , not all of its dependencies ...

Is there any way to tell maven not to include its dependencies to the project ?

Or ... another way , when packaging WAR , just copy another prepared spring-modules-cache.jar to WEB-INF/lib , how to do this ? Thanks !