Spring Boot dependency management not working for ehcache when using Gradle and the dependency management plugin #37243
Description
When using Spring Boot with the dependency management plugin, users are supposed to be able to specify dependencies without a version and the Spring Boot managed version will be used. This usually works well. However, with SB 3.1 I have found that it fails to resolve the ehcache dependency when used without specifying a version.
This is a sample build.gradle file that fails:
plugins {
id 'java'
id 'org.springframework.boot' version '3.1.3'
id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.1.3'
}
group = 'com.example'
version = '0.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
java {
sourceCompatibility = '17'
}
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
implementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-cache'
implementation 'org.ehcache:ehcache'
testImplementation 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test'
}
tasks.named('test') {
useJUnitPlatform()
}
If I run a build using this file I get the following error message:
$ ./gradlew build
> Task :compileJava FAILED
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':compileClasspath'.
> Could not find org.ehcache:ehcache:.
Required by:
project :
* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
> Get more help at https://help.gradle.org.
BUILD FAILED in 3s
1 actionable task: 1 executed
This used to work with SB 2.7, and still works for other dependencies that I use. For some reason, the ehcache dependency is not working with SB dependency management.