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Provide some default dependency substitutions in Spring Boot's Gradle plugin

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Description

Gradle allows one dependency to be substituted for another via a dependency substitution. This could be useful for things like replacing a javax API jar with its Jarkara equivalent or replacing Commons Logging with spring-jcl. We might be able to provide some of the substitutions by default when Spring Boot's Gradle plugin is applied. We could also offer a way to turn them off via a small addition to the plugin's DSL.

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Research direction

Start by reading the Spring Boot Gradle plugin and Gradle's dependency substitution documentation. Determine which default substitutions should be supported and how the plugin DSL would disable them; done means the agreed substitutions apply when the plugin is used and the opt-out behavior is covered.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java, spring-boot
Domain
build-system
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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