Question

I have a following problem – I am trying to use apache commons-lang version 2.6 in my project (which is defined in the pom.xml) but due to transitive dependency maven always add version 3.2.1 which breaks my build.
Here is relevant part of pom.xml

<properties>
   <commons-lang.version>2.6</commons-lang.version>
</properties>
<dependency>
   <groupId>commons-lang</groupId>
   <artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
   <version>${commons-lang.version}</version>
</dependency>

and when I try to run mvn dependency:tree I can see the reason is transitive dependency of

+- org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:jar:2.26.0:compile (version managed from 2.26.0)
    +- net.sourceforge.htmlunit:htmlunit:jar:2.10:compile
       +- org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:jar:3.1:compile

So I can see the problem but I have really no idea how to fix it. Thanks for any suggestions:-)

Answer 1

My collegue forgot to declare version in dependencyManagement in parent pom so that was it. Thank you for your suggestions!