"ALRubinger" wrote : | We can introduce some ranges and see what kind of results we have...technically this is a supported feature. | It needs testing. Somebody needs to run some test projects through a few releases (including snapshots) to validate the behaviour is correct; * specific versions pom tagged in svn * ranges in the repository If it is not correct in some cases we learn what to avoid or how to work around the problems. If I had more time, I'd do it myself, for now I'm just using mvn dependency:tree to check poms are behaving as expected when I create releases and fixing it with exclusions if they are not. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4137858#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...