Importing Dependencies – Maven - Introduction to the Dependency MechanismIn text, dependencies for A, B, and C are defined as A -> B -> C -> D 2.0 and A -> E -> D 1.0, then D 1.0 will be used when building A because the path from A to D through E is shorter. You could explicitly add a dependency to D 2.0 in A to force the use of D 2.0, as shown here: Dependency management - this allows project authors to directly specify the versions of artifacts to be used when they a
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