Re: [aether-users] Exclusions on a dependency

[Benjamin Bentmann <bentmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Guymon wrote:

> exclusions.add( new Exclusion( "org.apache.tomcat", "catalina", null,
> null) );
> dependency.setExclusions( exclusions );

In addition to what Ben correctly pointed out, your exclusion is not 
properly declared. You likely want to specify "*" for classifier and 
extension, not null which only matches for classifier="" and extension="".

> I have not tried source diving to figure this out, was hoping this is an
> easy fix.

FWIW, ExclusionDependencySelector is the class evaluating the exclusions.


Benjamin