ivy

Ivy allows to exclude specified dependencies from resolution. This will exclude jaxen from the dependency: <dependency org=”org.jdom” name=”jdom” rev=”2.0.2″> <exclude module=”jaxen”/> </dependency> This will exclude cobertura and findbugs <dependency org=”org.jdom” name=”jdom” rev=”2.0.2″> <exclude name=”maven-cobertura-plugin” /> <exclude name=”maven-findbugs-plugin” /> </dependency> solved Alter ivy.xml file called in as transitive dependency