[SOLVED] How to exclude dependencies from maven assembly plugin : jar-with-dependencies?

Maven's assembly plugin enables the creation of a big jar including all dependencies with descriptorRef jar-with-dependencies.

How can one exclude some of these dependencies? It seems like it does not have such a configuration? Is there another solution?

This example indicates one way to do this:

 <dependencySets>
    <dependencySet>
      ....
      <excludes>
        <exclude>commons-lang:commons-lang</exclude>
        <exclude>log4j:log4j</exclude>
      </excludes>
    </dependencySet>
    ....
  </dependencySets>

Essentially we would use the excludes option available in dependencySet.