javaspring-bootmaven-dependency-plugin

Spring boot core dependencies seen as unused by maven-dependency-plugin


maven-dependency-plugin detects spring boot dependencies as unused, but they are actually requied to run my application. Would I have made something wrong ?

My pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">

    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <artifactId>my-service</artifactId>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>
    <name>my-service</name>
    <description>my service</description>

    <parent>
        <groupId>com.my</groupId>
        <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
        <version>0.2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </parent>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-actuator</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-eureka</artifactId>
            <exclusions>
                <exclusion>
                    <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
                    <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
                </exclusion>
            </exclusions>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-configuration-processor</artifactId>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.embed</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-embed-core</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
            <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.security.oauth</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-security-oauth2</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-commons</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-autoconfigure</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <!--Analyze maven dependencies at verify phase-->
            <plugin>
                <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.10</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <id>analyze</id>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>analyze-only</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <ignoreNonCompile>true</ignoreNonCompile>
                            <failOnWarning>false</failOnWarning>
                            <outputXML>true</outputXML>
                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

My logs

[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.10:analyze-only (analyze) @ resource-service ---
[WARNING] Unused declared dependencies found:
[WARNING]    org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator:jar:1.3.5.RELEASE:compile
[WARNING]    org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-oauth2:jar:1.1.0.RELEASE:compile
[WARNING]    org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-configuration-processor:jar:1.3.5.RELEASE:compile
[WARNING]    org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-starter-eureka:jar:1.1.0.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Solution

  • This is normal since your code doesn't directly utilize any of those dependencies. The way Spring Boot works is it analyzes your classpath and will autoconfigure many different things for you simply by adding the corresponding dependency. Since the configuration is happening outside of your application code, Maven believes these dependencies to be unused.