Ivy's transitive="false" gets simply ignored when downloading from Nexus

Question

At our company, we are migrating our old ivy repository to Nexus.

After uploading our own artifacts to Nexus, I tried downloading a few projects' dependencies to test the setup, but I'm failing with spring-web. Let me explain how.

Here is the ivy-settings.xml file pointing only to our local Nexus installation

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<ivysettings>

    <settings defaultResolver="default" />

    <resolvers>
        <ibiblio name="nexus" m2compatible="true" root="http://nexus.local/nexus/content/repositories/central/" />
        <ibiblio name="our-nexus" m2compatible="true" root="http://nexus/nexus/content/repositories/repo" />

        <chain name="default" returnFirst="true">
            <resolver ref="our-nexus" />
            <resolver ref="nexus" />
        </chain>
    </resolvers>
</ivysettings>

In one of our projects we use Spring Web, but not all of its dependencies, so I declared

<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-web" rev="3.0.5.RELEASE" transitive="false" />

This worked fine when using Ivy repository. However today I can't perform an <ivy:retrieve> task because it can't find com.caucho#hessian#3.2.1

<ivy:report> task says that such version of hessian is required by spring-web 3.2.11.RELEASE

But I have declared transitive="false"!!!

Why isn't it working? What am I missing/messing?

Answer 1

Should work. Personally I prefer configuration mappings. Try the following instead:

<dependency org="org.springframework" name="spring-web" rev="3.0.5.RELEASE" conf="default->master" />

For more details see:

• How can I include the Ivy dependency and none of its dependencies?