How do you normally approach transitive dependency issues that occur at run-time in large software projects? For the past three weeks, I have been trying to start a component of a large piece of software within another component of the software, but it intermittently dies due to transitive dependency issues that are only known at run-time. By transitive dependency issues, I mean that certain dependencies of a given project's dependencies collide with other dependencies at run-time, causing instability, or instant failure.There are hundreds, upon hundreds of dependencies in use, and there are approximately 50 sub-projects associated with the tool that are worked on in isolation by other teams, where all modules have deeply nested dependencies between each other. Nobody knows what all of the sub-projects are used for, given the scale, and complexity of the project.In this situation, would you try to generate a visual representation of the DAG for each of the dependencies of the affected component, and attempt to determine where collisions may occur at run-time? I have no control over how dependencies are managed in other sub-projects, and cannot change any Java code that has been written by other developersThe solutions I've come up with only work for an hour, or two, and then they stop working due to changes in upstream components. An example of an upstream component is an artifact on which the project that I am working on is dependent on which is built at an earlier stage in the CI pipeline.At other's requests, I am going to include information on what technology is being used, at the risk of having the question closed for providing too much information, or the body getting too long:Maven is used for dependency management; andSpring is used as a DI container;Most of the dependency issues involve overlapping bean contexts as a result of the contexts of other modules being loaded at run-timeThe product works properly, and there are smorgasbords of unit tests, and integration tests to elude to the functional correctness of the programIn general, I am looking for a language-agnostic approach to identifying ways of resolving dependency conflicts without enumerating through all possible combinations of a given project's dependencies.I cannot re-architect the project, add additional quality gates, push for paradigm shifts across the company, or switch languages as a resolution.
How do you approach transitive dependency conflicts that are only known at run-time?
dependency management;dependency analysis