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Repeatingly people get conflicts because of different asm library versions and because ow2 didn't change package names between incompatible versions of the asm library.
Ow2 recommends that libraries/components using asm byte processing bundle their own repackages version of asm.
I suggest that CXF does the same and avoid conflicts for the future.
http://asm.ow2.org/doc/faq.html#Q15
It's the third time I got bitten by this and it's a waste of time and blaming other libraries and trying to run other libraries without correct asm version does not help. Updating legacy applications is a pain without those issues.
I know that a similiar issue has been rejected in the past (adding a dependency to a repackaged asm) but in my opinion CXF is a major component and should play nicely with others and should repacke on it's own.
Thank you for providing such a great product.