Tapestry: yuicompressor not working on tomcat / jboss

I just wanted to deploy my web application on tomcat and realized that my javascript libraries wouldn’t be minified. Minification failed with strange “StringIndexOutOfBoundsException” Exceptions:

[ERROR] AssetsModule.ResourceMinimizer String index out of range: 142644
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 142644
        at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1934)
        at com.yahoo.platform.yui.compressor.JavaScriptCompressor.printSourceString(JavaScriptCompressor.java:267)

There seems to be a bug with yuicompressor and some specially patched rhino classes. See https://github.com/greenlaw110/greenscript/pull/29#issuecomment-4017147 and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6652550/yui-compressor-stringindexoutofboundsexception-on-jboss.

The solution was to modify the pom.xml as follows:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId>
            <artifactId>tapestry-yuicompressor</artifactId>
            <version>${tapestry-release-version}</version>
            <exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<artifactId>yuicompressor</artifactId>
					<groupId>com.yahoo.platform.yui</groupId>
				</exclusion>
	     </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        

		<dependency>
			<groupId>com.yahoo.platform.yui</groupId>
			<artifactId>yuicompressor</artifactId>
			<version>2.4.7</version>
			<exclusions>
				<exclusion>
					<groupId>rhino</groupId>
					<artifactId>js</artifactId>
				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>