Maven Global Excludes

Just recently I run into a problem in our project with maven dependencies. Transitively we had dependency on two different versions of 3rd party library. We ended up with both jars on our classpath, with the older version being higher in classpath. Thus our application failed with an erroru. To solve this problem we needed to exclude the older version. Here is a nice blog describing how to do it.

http://jlorenzen.blogspot.sk/2009/06/maven-global-excludes.html