"adrian(a)jboss.org" wrote : | | It certainly allows you to be very explict about what you want and understand | what your real dependencies are. :-) | | e.g. I don't care that JBossXB defines apache-xxx:1.2.3, I want to use apache-xxx:2.3.4 | Currently I don't even know that it using it at all without some nontrivial investigation. ;-) If you define apache-xxx:2.3.4 as a direct dependency, it should be using that one. We had some problems with microcontainer in the past because the dependency's groupId changed, so maven didn't know they were the same dep, and that caused the older one to be used. You can also use the project info report mvn project-info-reports:dependencies And that should show what your project is actually using. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4107812#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...