There has been some discussion about adding new exclusions in maven 2.1 that would allow you to exclude a certain transitive dependency across the whole tree. I have been pushing for this since I thing it would help in a lot of ways. I haven't heard anything about an option to exclude all transitive dependencies though. Is this something that you would really want? Then you would always have to update your transitive deps when any of the direct deps changed versions. It seems like this would have similar maintenance issues, just at a different time. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107784#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...