[babebridou]

Exclusions happen, when you need to make do with libraries that have different release schedules or are poorly organized but critical for your current priorities, needs and time constraints. One should see exclusions pretty much as Technical Debt.

Maven becomes brilliant when you start dealing with a large number of modules and profiles, and becomes more tedious when you pass a certain complexity threshold, usually when you have multiple layers of compile-time code generation going on top of each other.