As far as I know, the exclude element works fine for us, also in the case
of such transitive dependencies.
Maybe you received javax.servlet via another dependency ?
As a workaround (or a test), you could add your exclude element(s)
directly under (but at bottom of) the dependencies element of moduleA.
This way, you don't care if the exclude is for spring-security or for some
other module. On the other hand, you might forget after a while the exact
reason why the exclude element is there.
Regards,
Marc
2014-05-09 0:17 GMT+02:00 Zac Jacobson pie@gmail.com:
In my ivy.xml files, I have a module moduleA with a dependency like this:
dependency org=org.springframework name=spring-security
rev=3.1.2
exclude org=javax.servlet/
/dependency
And when I resolve, javax.servlet is not included, as I expected.
Next, I have moduleB with a dependency back to moduleA
dependency org=myOrg name=moduleA/
I was surprised that when I run resolve, javax.servlet shows up for
moduleB. Is this expected? Is there a flag I'm missing to keep the excludes
in tact from depending modules?
I see this for both Ivy 2.4.0 rc1 and 2.3.0
Thanks,
Zac