What are unused/undeclared dependencies in Maven? What to do with them?

Question

Maven dependency:analyze complains about the dependencies in my project. How does it determine which are unused and which are undeclared? What should I do about

Answer 1

The answer to:

"How does it determine which are unused and which are undeclared?".

Maven uses Object WebASM framework that analyzes your raw bytecode. It goes through all your classes and then builds a list of all classes that these reference. That is the how.

As to what to do, I would not recommend removing the "unused, declared dependecies" unless you are absolutely sure they actually unused.