title: Resolving Maven dependency conflicts?
body: <p>Given my following <code>pom.xml</code> in Eclipse Mars.1 with m2e plugin:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;de.mytools&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;my-tool&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.1.0&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;properties&gt;
        &lt;jmeter-version&gt;2.13&lt;/jmeter-version&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.jmeter&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;jorphan&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;${jmeter-version}&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.jmeter&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;ApacheJMeter_components&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;${jmeter-version}&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.jmeter&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;ApacheJMeter_core&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;${jmeter-version}&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.jmeter&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;jorphan&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;${jmeter-version}&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.jmeter&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;ApacheJMeter_java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;${jmeter-version}&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.commons&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;commons-lang3&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;3.4&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I update the Maven dependencies they are all present. However I have an awful lots of conflicts between versions if I inspect the dependency hierarchy, see the screenshot. How can I resolve this?</p>
  
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