[jira] [Created] (SLING-4938) sling-mock: Transitive dependency reflections includes very old xml-apis

["Konrad Windszus (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Konrad Windszus created SLING-4938:
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             Summary: sling-mock: Transitive dependency reflections includes very old xml-apis
                 Key: SLING-4938
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4938
             Project: Sling
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: Testing
    Affects Versions: Testing Sling Mock 1.4.0
            Reporter: Konrad Windszus


Whenever a maven project depends on {{o.a.s.testing.sling-mock}} it automatically depends on {{xml-apis}} in version {{1.0.b2}}.
This is problematic as this is not only a very old version but also it is very hard to determine which version should be used with which JRE (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11677572/dealing-with-xerces-hell-in-java-maven).
Therefore could we just explicitly ignore the dependency {{dom4j}} on {{sling-mock}}?
I see that {{reflections}} is only used in {{ModelAdapterFactoryUtil}} and I don't see why {{dom4j}} would be necessary there. Maybe we could also get rid of the other optional dependencies {{javassist}}, {{slf4j-api}}, {{gson}}, {{servlet-api}} (https://github.com/ronmamo/reflections/blob/master/pom.xml)?

That way the classpath would be much leaner and cleaner.



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