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You can use geronimo-property-plugin in the pom.xml file of artifacts to set _bootClassPath_ property which is used by maven-compiler-plugin and maven-surefire-plugin as followed. The geronimo-property-plugin executes in the "validate" phase and sets "_bootClassPath" _ system property. The value of "_bootClassPath" _ property is set to _-Xbootclasspath/p:<path><pathSeparator><path>..._ string where each *<path>( is the jar file to place in the front of boot classpath.
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