I am trying to trim down a bit the pom dependencies we are using to keep only what is necessary. For instance the web module poms declares lot of stuff it does not have to declares: - jbossxb : is not used directly and is already declared by its consumers (microcontainer) - jboss vfs : same - javassist : same However those jars are needed to build test cases, but maven antrun extended plugin is able to resolve the dependencies transitively so it works. The only dependency I am not able to remove is the concurrent oswego jar. For some reason it is used by something but I cannot determine what. I have removed first the dependency of the common module over that concurrent jar (by using java.util.concurrent)... View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4131691#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...