Gradle: Override transitive dependency by version classifier

Question

One of the dependencies declared in my project has a transitive dependency on \'com.google.guava:guava:15.0\'. But my application deployed on WAS/Weblogic doesn

Answer 1

I came across a more elegant approach which is simply:

compile ("com.google.guava:guava:15.0:cdi1.0") {
  force = true
}

Explanation

Setting force = true for a dependency tells gradle to use the specified version in case of a version conflict