Transitive dependencies unresolved at runtime in eclipse wtp - eclipse

Question

I am facing an issue while running a Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse. I have created a Maven Project (archtype - webapp) and then added DWP behaviour in it by adding maven-eclipse-plugin (version 2.9). The I added my project dependencies in POM file which is as follows
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>au.com.fairfaxdigital</groupId>
<artifactId>accessloganalyzer</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>accessloganalyzer Maven Webapp</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sourceforge.wurfl</groupId>
<artifactId>wurfl</artifactId>
<version>1.4</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
<version>3.8</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>scientiamobile.public</id>
<name>Scientia Mobile Public repository</name>
<url>http://dev.scientiamobile.com/nexus/content/repositories/public-releases/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<build>
<finalName>accessloganalyzer</finalName>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.6</source>
<target>1.6</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-eclipse-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9</version>
<configuration>
<projectNameTemplate>accessloganalyzer-${project.version}</projectNameTemplate>
<downloadSources>true</downloadSources>
<downloadJavadocs>true</downloadJavadocs>
<wtpmanifest>true</wtpmanifest>
<wtpapplicationxml>true</wtpapplicationxml>
<wtpversion>2.0</wtpversion>
<manifest>${basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifest>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>
Then I build the project using maven command (clean install). I could see the generated war file in target folder. When try run this application on tomcat within eclipse (project->right click->run one server) tomcat starts with an error.
SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener
instance of class
net.sourceforge.wurfl.core.web.WURFLServletContextListener
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang/StringUtils
at
net.sourceforge.wurfl.core.web.WURFLServletContextListener.contextInitialized(WURFLServletContextListener.java:81)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4765)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5260)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:866)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:842)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:615)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:649)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1581)
at
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) Caused by:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils
at
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1688)
at
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1533)
... 15 more Starting Introspector initialization...
When I look into the Eclipse Folder from where tomcat runs the app (C:\Deepak\Study\Dev\Practicals\workspace.metadata.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\accessloganalyzer-1.0-SNAPSHOT), I didn't find any dependencies (including commons-lang which is being referenced in the error) for the third party library wurfl.1.4.jar that I am using in my project.
wurfl library uses the following dependencies which are not present in WEB-INF/lib and hence causing the issue
commons-collections-3.2.1
commons-lang-2.6
jackson-core-asl-1.8.2
jackson-mapper-asl-1.8.2
logback-classic-0.9.28
logback-core-0.9.28
slf4j-api-1.6.1
Can any one please point what I missing why these transitive dependencies are not being copied in WEB-INF/lib folder in the application WAR file?

Answer 1

Install m2e wtp plugin. This plugin can be installed from the Eclipse Marketplace (Help -> Eclipse Marketplace...). That should get you most of the way there. You should then see your dependencies where you are expecting.