JBoss development, A new message was posted in the thread "EJBTHREE-2007: VFS Abstraction": http://community.jboss.org/message/524557#524557 Author : jaikiran pai Profile : http://community.jboss.org/people/jaikiran Message: -------------------------------------------------------------- A bit OT - If Maven allowed a way to exclude an artifact irrespective of from which artifact it get's pulled in transitively from, then instead of something like this:   <dependency>       <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>       <artifactId>hibernate-annotations</artifactId>       <version>${version.org.hibernate}</version>       <!-- Exclude org.hibernate:hibernate which is banned in       favour of org.hibernate:hibernate-core -->       <exclusions>         <exclusion>             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>             <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>         </exclusion>       </exclusions>     </dependency>     <dependency>       <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>       <artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>       <version>${version.org.hibernate.hibernate-entitymanager}</version>       <!-- Exclude org.hibernate:hibernate which is banned in       favour of org.hibernate:hibernate-core -->       <exclusions>         <exclusion>             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>             <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>         </exclusion>       </exclusions>     </dependency>   we could just have had:         <exclusions>         <exclusion>             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>             <artifactId>hibernate</artifactId>         <!-- Instruct Maven to exclude this artifact from any dependency         of this project which pulls this in -->         <include-transitive/>         </exclusion>       </exclusions> -------------------------------------------------------------- To reply to this message visit the message page: http://community.jboss.org/message/524557#524557