Override dependencies of third party jar in maven

[Raihan Jamal]

Like this org.carrot2 is depending on commons-httpclient 3.1 So how I can change this commons-httpclient 3.1 to HttpClient 4.1.1. I am working in eclipse. As I want to remove commons-httpclient:3.1 from those who are depending on this jar file and I want to replace with HttpClient 4.1.1.

So what I was trying to do.. I doubled click on this org.carrot2 from dependency hierarchy folder and went into its pom.xml file and was trying to change commons-httpclient 3.1 to httpclient 4.1.1 but it is not allowing me to change as backspace and delete is not working on that..

Any suggestions will be appreciated..

[Vijitha Kumara]

So you are trying to modify a third party library jar (this may include the library being compiled with the new dependency) file and distribute it with your application to the client?
I'm not sure about any licencing issues with this, but we'll leave it aside for the moment. Are you not trying to modify the extracted jar here?

[EDIT]Changed to licencing instead copyright[/EDIT]

[Tim Holloway]

There are some restrictions on this, but for the most part, if you have a POM that has a dependency that has a sub-dependency on an older version of a jar, you can specify the newer version in your POM and that version will be the one and only version that is installed and bound to your target.