Spring 3, Jersey (JSR-311) and Maven dependencies
Own Answer: I simply excluded the dependencies in the pom.xml in the following way. there don't seem to be any incompabilities and everything runs fine so far:
<dependency> <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-spring</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId> </exclusion> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions></dependency>
I don't know if jersey-spring is compatible with Spring 3.0 but the way to control the versions of artifacts used in transitive dependencies is to use dependencyManagement:
<project> ... <repositories> <repository> <id>download-java-net</id> <url>http://download.java.net/maven/2/</url> </repository> </repositories> <properties> <org.springframework.version>3.0.2.RELEASE</org.springframework.version> </properties> <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> <version>${org.springframework.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.sun.jersey.contribs</groupId> <artifactId>jersey-spring</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> <exclusions> <exclusion> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring</artifactId> </exclusion> </exclusions> </dependency> ... </dependencies></project>Note that it's still required to exclude org.springframework:spring:jar:2.5.6 since this dependency doesn't exist in later versions.
Below, the dependency tree you'll get with this setup:
$ mvn dependency:tree [INFO] Scanning for projects...[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[INFO] Building Q2911869[INFO] task-segment: [dependency:tree][INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------[INFO] [dependency:tree {execution: default-cli}][INFO] com.stackoverflow:Q2911869:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT[INFO] +- com.sun.jersey.contribs:jersey-spring:jar:1.2:compile[INFO] | +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-server:jar:1.2:compile[INFO] | | +- com.sun.jersey:jersey-core:jar:1.2:compile[INFO] | | | \- javax.ws.rs:jsr311-api:jar:1.1.1:compile[INFO] | | \- asm:asm:jar:3.1:compile[INFO] | +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | | +- org.springframework:spring-asm:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | | \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.1:compile[INFO] | +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | +- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | | +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | \- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:3.0.2.RELEASE:compile[INFO] | \- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile[INFO] \- junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:test...