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Gradle – Exclude commons-logging from Spring

Gradle example to exclude commons-logging from Spring frameworks.

build.gradle

    compile('org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.2.4.RELEASE'){
        exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
    }

If you have multiple Spring dependencies, you have to exclude for each

build.gradle

    compile('org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.2.4.RELEASE'){
        exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
    }

    compile('org.springframework:spring-test:4.2.4.RELEASE'){
        exclude group: 'commons-logging', module: 'commons-logging'
    }

A better solution is excluding commons-logging at the project level.

build.gradle

	configurations.all {
	    exclude group: "commons-logging", module: "commons-logging"
	}

    compile 'org.springframework:spring-webmvc:4.2.4.RELEASE'
    compile 'org.springframework:spring-test:4.2.4.RELEASE'

References

  1. Spring MVC + Logback SLF4j example
  2. Gradle – Display project dependency

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Fabricio Zelada
7 years ago

Keeps telling me exclude is an unrecognized symbol. Using gradle 3.3

Jitendra Patel
6 years ago

I also faced exact same issue and I was able to resolve the issue from here: https://discuss.gradle.org/t/you-cant-change-a-configuration-which-is-not-in-unresolved-state-when-building-for-sonar/4631

Update config as below:

configurations {
[compile, runtime]*.exclude module: “org.osgi.foundation”
}