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Discussion on: Build, compile, run: A crash course in classpaths

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Tony Robalik

Could you be more specific?

A great tool for diagnosing classpath issues is Gradle build scans. You may not be aware, but they're also available for Maven!

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Philipp Gysel

Hey Tony, thanks for getting back to me! So the issue was related to diagnostic sure. I had one specific situation where one dependency A required a specific dependency B but this dependency B was also pulled in transitively somewhere else, with a newer version that was incompatible for A. Does this make sense..?🤓

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Tony Robalik

This has to do with gradle dependency resolution, which is somewhat outside the scope of this series. Gradle generally will pull in the most recent version that is requested by any part of the dependency graph. There are many ways to tell Gradle which version to finally resolve. A good starting point is docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/..., and you can also join the gradle community slack and ask for help.