title: how to exclude all artifacts from a group in maven?
body: <p>I am using maven 3 with the Enforcer plugin configured to force version convergence. I am using Spring 3.1.2 and Spring Security 3.1.3.</p>
  
  <p>The problem is that Spring 3.1.3 POM declares dependencies on Spring 3.0.7 because that is the minimum version need for spring security. This means that the enforcer plugin complains because the transitive dependency graph has both Spring 3.1.2 and Spring 3.0.7 in it. </p>
  
  <p>The fix is to explicitly exclude spring 3.0.7 as a dependency of spring security so that the enforcer plugin in happy.  </p>
  
  <p>The code snippet below does just that, the problem with it is that I am having to repeat the same snippet over and over gain for each jar of spring security, this is tedious and makes the pom hard to read, is there a way to tell maven something along the lines.</p>
  
  <p>for the dependency org.springframework.security no matter what artificatId ignore the dependency of the security framework on the spring framework? </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.security&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-security-acl&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${spring.security.version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;exclusions&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-tx&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-asm&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
  
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-aop&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-beans&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-jdbc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-expression&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;/exclusions&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
          &lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.security&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-security-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;${spring.security.version}&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;exclusions&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-aop&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-expression&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-beans&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-context&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;aopalliance&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;aopalliance&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-jdbc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
                  &lt;exclusion&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-tx&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
                  &lt;/exclusion&gt;
              &lt;/exclusions&gt;
          &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>