Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
I'm struggling now with transitive dependencies and exclusions in Cocoon. The problem is that (for example) cocoon-sitemap-impl has dependency on commons-jxpath which depends on commons-logging. The last one, depends on avalon-framework:avalon-framework which should be excluded.
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However, they seems to be not applied while building cocoon-sitemap-impl so the only option is to add (even more) clutter sitemap's pom. This does not help that much, because it turns out that store suffers from the same problem. The sequence seems to be really long.
Neither dependency:resolve nor dependency:analyze list avalon-framework:avalon-framework as an included dependency (I executed the plugin from the block directory). Are you sure it comes from that block ?
I've had some good luck using the dependency plugin [1] to hunt down stray dependencies. It doesn't show you the complete dependency graph but is nevertheless quite helpful in debugging module dependencies. (The fact that maven even needs a tool like this shows you what a complex beast the transitive dependency feature has become, but that's a different story alltogether)
PS. I'm little brusque because it's not the first time I waste time because of Maven. However, don't be alarmed; I'm not going to propose a switch to another silver bullet ;-)
no problem ! HTH Jorg [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/
