Is there a way to exclude a Maven dependency globally?

Question

I’m trying to find a “generic” way of excluding a transitive dependency from being included without having to exclude it from all the dependencies that depend on it. For ex

Answer 1

To expand on dnault's comment:

One can use the Maven Enforcer plugin's Banned Dependencies rule to ensure dependencies are excluded. One still has to exclude them manually, but the build will fail if anyone adds the dependency elsewhere by mistake.

  
    org.hibernate
    hibernate-jmx
    3.3.2.GA
    
      
        org.slf4j
        slf4j-api
      
    
  



  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-enforcer-plugin
    1.4.1
    
      
        
          enforce
        
        
          
            
              
                org.slf4j:slf4j-api
              
            
          
        
      
    
  

Also there is an open feature request: MNG-1977 Global dependency exclusions