This bill of materials (BOM) POM covers all the SLF4J artifacts related to a particular version. By importing this BOM, you fix the version of all of SLF4J-related artifacts to the versions associated with a particular release. This prevents the overriding of SLF4J transitive dependencies which in turn could cause version conflicts between libraries. To use this BOM, add the following in your POM: <dependencyManagement> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.covisint.core</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-bom</artifactId> <version>1.7.6</version> <type>pom</type> <scope>import</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> And then declare your dependency on the SLF4J artifacts *without* a version.
Homepage POM file JAR file Javadoc'com.covisint.core:slf4j-bom:1.7.6'