Shading a dependency in Maven

Question

I have two dependencies imported via Maven that both import a common library, but at different versions but the versions are not compatible with each other. Essentially the

Answer 1

As everyone has suggested you can use the maven-shade-plugin. Open source projects handle this by creating one maven sub project for each dependency that needs to be shaded. So in your case you would need 3 maven projects:

1. One for shading dependency Y
2. One for shading dependency G
3. One for your original project. Your original project includes the artifacts created in 1. and 2. as dependencies.

Your maven project hierarchy would look like this:

• project
  • pom.xml
  • shade-Y
    • pom.xml
  • shade-G
    • pom.xml
  • application
    • pom.xml

An example of a project which has a maven sub project for shading a dependency is here. Look at the shaded-ning19 folder to see how to create a dedicated maven project for shading a dependency.