How to exclude commons logging dependency of spring with ivy?

Question

I have a project build with ant using ivy for dependency management. I have no ivysetting file, but an ivy.xml with the following dependency (I want to use spring with slf4j instead of commons logging):

<configurations>
  <conf name="compile" />
  <conf name="runtime" extends="compile"/>
</configurations>
<dependencies>
  <dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-webmvc" rev="3.0.5.RELEASE" conf="compile->default">
    <exclude org="commons-logging" name="commons-logging"/>
  </dependency>
  <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev="1.6.1" conf="compile->default" />
  <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="jcl-over-slf4j" rev="1.6.1" conf="runtime->default" />
</dependencies>

But when resolving the compile configuration, commons-logging is resolved. I also tried to use the exclude on an explicit spring-core dependency but commons-logging is always placed into the compile classpath.

What is my fault? Isn't it that what Not Using Commons Logging describes for maven? Is it an ivy bug? Need I a special setting? Has ivy something cached? Any idea?

I use ant 1.8.2 and ivy 2.2.0, Using IvyDE in Eclipse has the same problem.

oers · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-16T12:39:48.303

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Your usage of the <exclude /> seems to be broken for unkown reasons. I tried something similar on my pc and the following worked:
Try the top-level exclude (which is directly under <dependencies />:

    <dependencies>
      <dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-webmvc" rev="3.0.5.RELEASE" conf="compile->default">
      </dependency>
      <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="slf4j-api" rev="1.6.1" conf="compile->default" />
      <dependency org="org.slf4j" name="jcl-over-slf4j" rev="1.6.1" conf="runtime->default" />
      <exclude org="commons-logging"/>
</dependencies>

I don't know why the other one is not working. There are some bugs in JIRA concerning exclude and circular dependencies, but that doesn't seem to fit this case. Maybe it's a real bug.

edited Jun 16 '11 at 12:39

answered Jun 16 '11 at 06:37

oers

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No, I see commons-logging in the report - and have a look in the [maven repo](http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/commons-logging/commons-logging) (which is in the default resolver as ibiblio, no own ivy repository) – Arne Burmeister Jun 16 '11 at 07:49
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Note that the tag comes at the end of the dependencies. For me, it was not possible to add it on any other place within dependencies but in the end. – joninx Feb 17 '15 at 09:33

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 18 '17 at 21:35

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Use module instead of name

<exclude org="commons-logging" module="commons-logging"/>

answered Aug 18 '17 at 21:35

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 11 '18 at 10:15

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<exclude name="commons-logging"/>

put above as general exclude might work better for you.

edited Jun 11 '18 at 10:15

R. Oosterholt

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answered Jun 20 '13 at 01:37

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How to exclude commons logging dependency of spring with ivy?

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