Overriding Dependency Versions with Spring Boot

Overriding Dependency Versions with Spring Boot

This article explains some of the dependency management tricks that can be used to create libraries and apps that depend on newer versions of a transitive dependency than that managed by a platform like examples below uses Reactor as an example of such a dependency because it is nearing a major new release (2.5.0) but existing dependency management platforms (Spring Boot 1.3.xq) declare a dependency on older versions (2.0.7). If you wanted to write an app that depended on a new version of Reactor through a transitive dependency on a library, this is the situation you would be faced with. It is a reasonable thing to want to do this, but it should be done with caution, because newer versions of transitive dependencies can easily break features that rely on the older version in Spring Boot. When you do this, and apply one of the fixes below, you are divorcing yourself from the dependency management of Spring Boot and saying "hey, I know what I am doing, trust me." Unfortunately,

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