How to remove tomcat-embedded dependency? - spring-boot

Question

I have a spring boot application that I want to deploy on weblogic, so I don't need the embedded tomcat dependency (it will crash otherwise).
This spring boot application also includes a library jar that, only to compile, needs the spring-boot-starter-web dependency. So, I did the following poms with "provided" for tomcat dependencies..nervetheless in the final .war the tomcat is still there! Is there a way to see where it's coming from? It is not necessary as manually removing it from my .war makes it work successfully...
mylibrary.pom
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-aop</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
myapplication.pom
<packaging>war</packaging>
<properties>
<java.version>1.8</java.version>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-tomcat</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-redis-reactive</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.myself</groupId>
<artifactId>my-library</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.redisson</groupId>
<artifactId>redisson-spring-data-22</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-devtools</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
<archive>
<manifest>
<addDefaultImplementationEntries>false</addDefaultImplementationEntries>
</manifest>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
edit
Running maven dependency:tree says that it is provided, so why it is in the war?
[INFO] +- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat:jar:2.2.5.RELEASE:provided
[INFO] | +- jakarta.annotation:jakarta.annotation-api:jar:1.3.5:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:jar:9.0.31:provided
[INFO] | +- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-el:jar:9.0.31:provided
[INFO] | \- org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-websocket:jar:9.0.31:provided

Answer 1

The provided dependency for tomcat was correct, my problem was that I needed to make a mvn clean before: the target directoy still had the tomcat dependency and it was included in the war.