Right now I'm migrating legacy project from Spring 1 to bigger version (yeah I know it's 2017). The project has 1 dependency which contains a lot of spring/ibatis dependencies. One of ibatis dependency is version 2.1.6 but migrating spring requires bigger version(2.3.4) I put the new dependency in my pom but maven keeps using the old one. I know that it's not soo good to have 2 different version in the project and the main goal for me is to remove the old big dependency but right now I want to start the project with the new one without removing the old one.
How to tell maven which dependency to use and how to ignore the other one? If this is not possible tell me how to migrate easily.
Thank you.
add the <exclusions> tag under the <dependency> section of the pom.
More Details here
Sample:
<project>
...
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>sample.ProjectA</groupId>
<artifactId>Project-A</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion> <!-- declare the exclusion here -->
<groupId>sample.ProjectB</groupId>
<artifactId>Project-B</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
From yesterday I have problems compiling with maven because of iText jar.
My project has a dependency of jasperreports-2.0.1 that depends on itext-1.02b or higher.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>[1.02b,)</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
That is the log error in maven:
Failed to collect dependencies for [jasperreports:jasperreports:jar:2.0.1 (compile)]: Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.lowagie:itext:jar:4.2.2: Could not transfer artifact com.itextpdf:itextpdf:pom:4.2.2 from/to jaspersoft (http://www.jasperforge.org/maven2): Access denied to http://www.jasperforge.org/maven2/com/itextpdf/itextpdf/4.2.2/itextpdf-4.2.2.pom. Error code 403, Forbidden -> [Help 1]
I see here a comment from Amedee Van Gasse that says something about a 4.2.2 version with no jar.
Why does the 1.02b version attach to 4.2.2?
Edit:
Jasper-reports uses an open version range:
[1.02b,)
This range says to maven to take the library latest version.
With the update from iText adding new version Pom with no jar and editting the maven-metadata of maven-central to that no-jar version crashes the compilation to all jar depending form latest com.lowagie library.
Updating locally your maven-metadata-central.xml (and other metadata if your company has it's own nexus.public) from ...m2\repository\com\lowagie\itext
to that works. Temporally solucion until iText updates the metadata or ALL companies that has dependencies for it's latest version updates it's pom
<metadata modelVersion="1.1.0">
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<versioning>
<latest>4.2.1</latest>
<release>4.2.1</release>
<versions>
<version>0.99</version>
<version>1.1.4</version>
<version>1.02b</version>
<version>1.2.3</version>
<version>1.3</version>
<version>1.3.1</version>
<version>1.4</version>
<version>1.4.8</version>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<version>2.0.6</version>
<version>2.0.7</version>
<version>2.0.8</version>
<version>2.1.0</version>
<version>2.1.2</version>
<version>2.1.3</version>
<version>2.1.4</version>
<version>2.1.5</version>
<version>2.1.7</version>
<version>4.2.0</version>
<version>4.2.1</version>
</versions>
<lastUpdated>20150709153501</lastUpdated>
</versioning>
</metadata>
A much simpler solution may be to upgrade to a newer version of jasperreports. Version 6.1.0 has this dependency on iText:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7.js2</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
No more "floating" dependency on iText, and it's a version that's custom made for jasperreports!
See http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.sf.jasperreports/jasperreports/6.1.0 for the complete pom.xml.
I'm using gradle and for the current version 6.8.2 I got the following build error:
> Could not find com.lowagie:itext:2.1.7.js6
So I added http://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/ as repository and now it works.
repositories {
mavenCentral()
maven { url "https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/" }
}
dependencies {
compile 'net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:6.8.0'
}
EDIT:
If you used this solution and suddenly get an error like
> Could not resolve com.lowagie:itext:2.1.7.js6.
> Could not parse POM http://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/com/lowagie/itext/2.1.7.js6/itext-2.1.7.js6.pom
> The element type "hr" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</hr>".
This is because the jfrog repository disabled http and only allows https now. For some reason this creates a broken pom with the following content
<html>
<head><title>308 Permanent Redirect</title></head>
<body>
<center><h1>308 Permanent Redirect</h1></center>
<hr><center>nginx</center>
</body>
</html>
Solution: Replace the http in the repository url with https.
The problem is indeed in the POM of jasper-reports:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>[1.02b,)</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
Jasper-reports distributes a (modified) build of iText 2.1.7 since at least November 2012 (if memory serves me well), so if your version of jasper-reports still has a dependency on 1.02b and up, it must be a very old version.
The jasper-reports dependency on iText should be changed to:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>[1.02b,2.1.7]</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
Or just:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
This relates to this question: How do I tell Maven to use the latest version of a dependency?
That page is riddled with cautions about always using the latest version for your dependencies. It reduces reproducibility of your builds.
2.1.7 was the last version of iText released by the company iText Group NV (or its legal predecessor), with the com.lowagie groupId. The next version of iText, released by the company iText Group NV, was version 5.0.0, with the com.itextpdf groupId, which means it's binary incompatible with your current code. There's also the matter of a license change to AGPL, but that is outside the scope of StackOverflow, I want to restrict my answer to the technical matters.
Any other versions of iText between 2.1.7 and 5.0.0, like 4.2.0 and 4.2.1, are forks by other companies. According to Apache's Guide to uploading artifacts to the Central Repository (https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-central-repository-upload.html), those companies should have used a different groupId, as the page clearly states in their FAQ:
I have a patched version of the foo project developed at foo.com, what
groupId should I use? When you patch / modify a third party project,
that patched version becomes your project and therefore should be
distributed under a groupId you control as any project you would have
developed, never under com.foo. See above considerations about
groupId.
TL;DR
If you don't want to change your code, tell your Maven to only get iText 2.1.7.
We decide to maintain same jasperreport version and made this changes in conflicteds pom:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
Edit: Change dependecy to 2.1.7 to be certain it will compile in future
I was making manteinance to some legacy code, and i faced the same problem. The solution that i found was to add the following to the pom.xml:
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>jasper-3rd-party</id>
<name>Jasper3rdParty</name>
<url>http://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>6.12.2</version>
</dependency>
<!-- More dependencies like: commons-collections4, org.apache.xmlgraphics, etc -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
<version>2.1.7.js4</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
The JasperReports version used to test this code was released on Mar/2020. Hope this helps!
I got the same problem,
Just realized that https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/artifactory/third-party-ce-artifacts is not accessible by public, you need to change the artifactory to jaspersoft directory.
For maven you can use below repositories in pom.xml
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>jaspersoft-third-party</id>
<url>https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
JasperReports patched the iText with some bug fixes. So you have to add the patched iText repo[1] in your pom/gradle file.
[1] http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/maven2/
Below is the gradle snippet for your reference when using jasper report 6.1.1.
repositories {
mavenLocal()
mavenCentral()
maven { url "http://repo.spring.io/release" }
maven { url "https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/artifactory/third-party-ce-artifacts/" }
maven { url "http://jasperreports.sourceforge.net/maven2/" }
}
This worked with the latest jasper-reports version 6.17.0 and maven 3.8.1, especially with the jasperreports-plugin from com.alexnederlof in version 2.8:
<project>
...
<repositories>
<!-- JasperSoft, they modified a standard library for their own special needs -->
<repository>
<id>jaspersoft-third-party</id>
<url>https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<!-- JasperSoft, they modified a standard library for their own special needs -->
<pluginRepository>
<id>jaspersoft-third-party</id>
<url>https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts/</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
...
It's important to know that there is not only <repositories> but also <pluginRepositories> which you maybe have to supply (depending on your setup and transitive dependencies).
Answer for searchers in 2k19
Artifact:
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
is deprecated now.
Better to exclude it from jasperreports and add new itext dependency manually
<dependency>
<groupId>jasperreports</groupId>
<artifactId>jasperreports</artifactId>
<version>6.10.0</version> <!--(or higher)-->
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>com.lowagie</groupId>
<artifactId>itext</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
<version>5.5.13</version> <!--(or higher)-->
</dependency>
"Fix" for me was to switch from jasperreports version 5.5.0 to 4.5.1 LOL. (which doesn't depend on itext)
Then it doesn't depend on a custom, seemingly unpublished dependency version of itext (2.1.7.js2 in my case).
You could download 2.1.7.js2.jar from the jasper people and publish it locally to your "own" custom maven repo, or even your local ~/.m2/repository (ugh). I've even seen people have a custom ivy command to "publish" a local copy of it to a local server (ivy or maven).
Or add the repo's in the other answers. Or just specify it manually as 2.1.7, which is in the main repo's, etc. (you'll miss some bug fixes though).
If you are using gradle Note That the url to the jaspersoft package below was changed from this one:
maven{ url "http://jaspersoft.artifactoryonline.com/jaspersoft/third-party-ce-artifacts" }
To this one here:
maven { url "https://jaspersoft.jfrog.io/artifactory/third-party-ce-artifacts" }
We have the same problem. To solve it, we have deleted the proxy parameters of the Maven config, and change the last version of the maven-metadata-central (in folder com\lowagie\itext of your repository).
A bad solution, but, temporaly, works :/
I have the same problem when using Maven 2.2.1, i re-built my project using Maven 3.2.3 and its works !
You have to use Maven 3 to resolve your problem, the bug seem to be resolved in this version.
i am in a situation to modify all the dependency management versions manually...
<dependencymanagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>group-a</groupId>
<artifactId>artifact-a</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>group-a</groupId>
<artifactId>artifact-a</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencymanagement>
i have more than 100 dependencies in the management which are not third party jars, all are project jars....
previously we have all the same versions,so we don't have any issues to modify....
now we introduced different versions for each module, for each and every time modifying the dependency management manually is some what difficulty...is there any easiest way to update by using the commands or any plugins.
You could use the Versions Maven Plugin which allows you to execute goals in order to handle versions, check the list here.
If you have 100-odd dependencies as you have mentioned, you should be using a repository manager like nexus or artifactory. Once you deploy your dependencies to the repository manager, then what #patric-lc suggests will work.
I have a java project which has more modules. In some of the modules I use a plugin.
In that plugin I nee to override one from its dependencies. So far so good. Solved with adding of the desired dependency in the plugin definition.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xdoclet-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>xdoclet</groupId>
<artifactId>xjavadoc</artifactId>
<version>1.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
...
But in one of the modules I need to override that dependency with some other version. I tried to solve that with the same way as overriding.
If I compile only that submodule alone, the correct dependency version is used, but if I compile whole project it does not work, because it uses the dependency from other modules for the plugin and not the one specified in the modules pom.
Any idea how to solve my problem?
Best regards, Filip
You can create property for your plugin version, e.g xdoclet.version and use it to override parent version.
<properites>
<xdoclet.version>1.5-SNAPSHOT</xdoclet.version>
</properties>
...
<plugin>enter code here
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>xdoclet-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>xdoclet</groupId>
<artifactId>xjavadoc</artifactId>
<version>${xdoclet.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
...
I have two projects:
Project-Core
Project-Source
Project-Core POM.xml:
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project-core</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>2.1</version>
Project-Source POM.xml:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project-core</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
<type>pom</type> (have tried leaving it out)
</dependency>
</dependencies>
I've done mvn clean install on Project-core, which installed the artifact in the local maven repository.
I am able to CD to Project-source and use mvn clean install (this installs Project-Source in the local maven repo as well), but I'm having trouble with NetBeans not finding the classes I need (from Project-Core) inside Project-Source.
What's a proper way of linking multiple projects? Since Project-Core produces a jar and that jar is installed in the local repository, it looks logical to only have to list that jar as a dependency on my Project-Source project. Is anything else needed?
You specified that the dependency "project-core" is of type "pom", but from the declaration it has packaging "jar" ?
Try:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.company</groupId>
<artifactId>project-core</artifactId>
<version>2.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Edit:
I've created a simple test project which worked just fine to use in Netbeand 7.0.1. Take a look and see if it gives you any hints.Code snippet