Maven - Detect Multiple Versions of the Same Dependency

Question

I just experienced a case of two direct dependencies of my maven project having two different versions of a particular transitive dependency.

In my particular case I had

Answer 1

Use the Dependency Enforcer plugin. It will stop the build when dependencies don't converge properly.

  
    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-enforcer-plugin
    1.0.1
    
      
        enforce
        
          
            
          
        
        
          enforce