Override dependencies of third party jar in maven

Question

Like this org.carrot2 is depending on commons-httpclient 3.1 So how I can change this commons-httpclient 3.1 to HttpClient 4.1.1

Answer 1

Add a dependency on HttpClient 4.1.1 to your POM. Maven will recognize the conflict (assuming groupId and artifactId of httpclient have not changed) between your direct dependency, and the indirect dependency, and use the newer version. (not because its the newer one, but because it is the more direct one)

And it makes sense you can't edit other people's pom files - after all, you want carrot to use the newer http client only in your program, not in all programs that use carrot ...