Can not exclude a dependency from a plugin

• Complexity:

  Intermediate
• Testcase included:

  yes

I need to be able to exclude a dependency that a plugin included so I can replace it with a different dependency. In this exact case I'm attempting to use the com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2:maven-jaxb-plugin:1.0 plugin and it depends on the non-public jsr173 jar. I would like to exclude that jar so I can include public stax one. I know this will be fixed by implementing the spec resolution feature, but excluding bad dependencies from a plugin is a general problem.

The following snippit will demonstrate the download problem assuming you don't have the jsr173 jar available:

<plugin>
<groupId>com.sun.tools.xjc.maven2</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jaxb-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>generate</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<generatePackage>org.apache.xbean.jaxb.schema</generatePackage>
</configuration>
</configuration>
</plugin>