how to remove dependency servlet-api from axis2 in gradle.build

Question

I have this dependencies tree in my gradle. I have included axis2-xmlbeans-1.6.1 in dependencies section. This makes my project also include servlet-api-2.3 which I don't want.

I have tried to remove it from dependencies but it does not work.

dependencies {
    compile('org.apache.axis2:axis2-xmlbeans:1.6.1'){ 
            //exclude module: 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3'
            exclude group: 'javax.servlet' , module: 'servlet-api'
    }
...
}

Result of gradle dependencies:

+--- org.apache.axis2:axis2-xmlbeans:1.6.1 [default]
|    +--- org.apache.axis2:axis2-codegen:1.6.1 [compile,master,runtime]
|    |    +--- org.apache.axis2:axis2-kernel:1.6.1 [compile,master,runtime]
|    |    |    +--- org.apache.ws.commons.axiom:axiom-api:1.2.12 [compile,master,runtime]
|    |    |    |    +--- jaxen:jaxen:1.1.6 [compile,master,runtime]
|    |    |    |    +--- .....
|    |    |    +--- javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3 [compile,master,runtime]

Do you know the solution?

Answer 1

Your example is not good enough to replicate the issue. I ran gradle dependencies on this script:

apply plugin: "java"

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    compile('org.apache.axis2:axis2-xmlbeans:1.6.1') {
        //exclude module: 'javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.3'
        exclude group: 'javax.servlet', module: 'servlet-api'
    }
}

And there is no servlet-api. It's likely that the dependency gets in from a different configuration (maybe master, it looks like your custom configuration). You can try to eliminate it from there, or you can remove a dependency from all configurations:

configurations {
    master
    all*.exclude group: 'javax.servlet', module: 'servlet-api'
}