Hi According to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.solr/solr-solrj/8.4.1 SolrJ now has 29 compile-time dependencies. Those are the ones explicitly mentioned in ivy.xml and I believe that the number would be even higher if we used transitive dependencies. That means that if you want to include SolrJ in a small app for just searching Solr, you get a ton of dependencies in your project that you may not need and that increase the chance of collision with other libs in your all.
So I want to raise the question whether it is time to take some action here. Otions may include: Get rid of unneeded deps Explicitly exclude deps from gradle build that we know we do not need Modularize SolrJ into a solrj-core and solrj-xxx, where solrj-core would be the minimum anyone would need to do the basics Look into shading select libs that often cause collisions Let the discussion begin :) Jan
