Is there anyway to exclude artifacts inherited from a parent POM?

Question

Artifacts from dependencies can be excluded by declaring an element inside a But in this case it\'s needed to

Answer 1

Some ideas:

1. Maybe you could simply not inherit from the parent in that case (and declare a dependency on base with the exclusion). Not handy if you have lot of stuff in the parent pom.

2. Another thing to test would be to declare the mail artifact with the version required by ALL-DEPS under the dependencyManagement in the parent pom to force the convergence (although I'm not sure this will solve the scoping problem).

  
        
      javax.mail
      mail
      ???
    
  

1. Or you could exclude the mail dependency from log4j if you're not using the features relying on it (and this is what I would do):

  log4j
  log4j
  1.2.15
  provided
  
    
      javax.mail
      mail
    
    
      javax.jms
      jms
    
    
      com.sun.jdmk
      jmxtools
    
    
      com.sun.jmx
      jmxri
    
  

1. Or you could revert to the version 1.2.14 of log4j instead of the heretic 1.2.15 version (why didn't they mark the above dependencies as optional?!).