[MDEP-156] dependency:analyze mistakenly reports an implemented interface as an unused, declared dependency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: analyze
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Elliot Metsger
• Created: 26/Mar/08 17:25
• Updated: 19/Aug/15 21:16
• Resolved: 19/Aug/15 21:16

Description

When executing dependency:analyze on my project, analyze mistakenly identifies a compile time dependency as unused.

When I remove the dependency from the POM, the compile fails. When I add it back in the compile succeeds.

The POM in question is located at:
http://dspace.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/dspace/branches/dspace-1_5_x/dspace-xmlui/dspace-xmlui-wing/pom.xml

The artifact that is mistakenly identified as "declared but unused" is:

<dependency>
       <groupId>org.dspace.xmlui.excalibur</groupId>
       <artifactId>excalibur-pool-api</artifactId>
       <version>2.1</version>
 </dependency>

The compile fails like so:
/Users/esm/idea/workspace/dspace-1.5.x/dspace-xmlui/dspace-xmlui-wing/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/wing/AbstractWingTransformer.java:[68,16] cannot access org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.Recyclable
file org/apache/avalon/excalibur/pool/Recyclable.class not found
public abstract class AbstractWingTransformer extends AbstractTransformer

org.apache.avalon.excalibur.pool.Recyclable is an interface implemented by org.dspace.app.xmlui.wing.BitstreamReader and org.dspace.app.xmlui.cocoon.DSpaceFeedGenerator.