How to exclude transitive dependency

Question

I use JavaMail in the same project with cxf. cxf brings an older version of JavaMail which does not suit me. How to excluded? I did so:

 compile (group: 'org.apache.cxf', name: 'cxf-rt-bindings-soap', version: apacheCfxVersion) { exclude module: 'geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec' } 

But it did not help. I find in the war WEB-INF \\ lib \\ geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec-1.6.jar

Answer 1

Try this:

configurations {
    all*.exclude module: 'geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec'
}