[derefr]

> the versioning problems should be solved by those tools

I'm not a Java developer; could you explain a bit about how Maven/Gradle solve this problem? My understanding is that what people want is something like what Node gives you—the ability to have both libfoo-1.0 and libfoo-1.1 loaded into the same VM at the same time without clashing. Do the build tools use e.g. name-mangling to achieve this?

[jpitz]

For Maven, there is a repackaging facility with name mangling that can do this, the Maven Shade Plugin. https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/