Maven2 ejb-client woes

The Maven2 ejb plugin can automatically generate an ejb-client for you:

       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin</artifactId>
         <configuration>
           <archive>
             <manifest>
               <addClasspath>true</addClasspath>
             </manifest>
           </archive>
           <generateClient>true</generateClient>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>

This can be dependend-upon from other projects:

 <dependency>
   <groupid>com.shopzilla.ca.bidding.impl.google</groupid>
   <artifactid>ejbs</artifactid>
   <type>ejb-client</type>
 </dependency>

Unfortunately, it often includes many classes / resources that you don't want to provide to the client. The default excludes get rid of some stuff. In my case, I had a beanRefContext.xml Spring config file in there that broke clients (since it referred to other Spring xml files that are in a server-side jar).

Supposedly you can add <clientexcludes> elements:

        <clientexcludes>
          <clientexclude>beanRefContext.xml</clientexclude>
          <clientexclude>META-INF/ejb-jar.xml</clientexclude>
          <clientexclude>META-INF/jboss.xml</clientexclude>
          <clientexclude>**/mdb/</clientexclude>
        </clientexcludes>

Sadly, that doesn't work with Maven 2.0.4 due to a bug in the ejb plugin: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MEJB-19

My workaround was to add an Ant task that rather heavy-handedly simulated this by unzipping the client jar and re-zipping with the exlcuded files. here it is:

       <plugin>
         <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
           <execution>
             <phase>package</phase>
             <goals>
               <goal>run</goal>
             </goals>
           </execution>
         </executions>
         <configuration>
           <!-- Manually strip client files since clientExcludes doesn't work on ejb plugin -->
           <tasks>
             <property name="ejb-client-excludes-list" value="beanRefContext.xml, META-INF/ejb-jar.xml, META-INF/jboss.xml, **/mdb/" />
             <echo>Manually excluding from ejb client jar: ${ejb-client-excludes-list}</echo>
             <property name="ejb-client-expanded.dir" value="${project.build.directory}/tmpClient" />
             <property name="ejb-client-artifact-name"
               value="${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-client.jar" />
             <delete dir="${ejb-client-expanded.dir}" />
             <unzip src="${ejb-client-artifact-name}" dest="${ejb-client-expanded.dir}" />
             <delete file="${ejb-client-artifact-name}" />
             <zip destfile="${ejb-client-artifact-name}" basedir="${ejb-client-expanded.dir}"
               excludes="${ejb-client-excludes-list}" />
           </tasks>
         </configuration>
       </plugin>