How declare dependency starting from a jar version onward?

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I would like to say that a project of mine has a dependency from servlet-api. I cannot accept 2.3, but if would be fine to use 2.4 or 2.5 (eg. javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.4 or javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.5).

So I would like to say something similar to: “use servlet-api FROM 2.4 and newer”

I understand that I can write: javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.+ but this, in turn could cause to select release 2.3, that I don’t want.

I tryied with a regexp javax.servlet:servlet-api:2.[45] but this doesn’t work.

Is there a way to express this dependency? What is the best practice for this issue?

Thanks, Luca

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You should be able to use an ivy “Version Range Matcher” as describe here. This works for an ivy repository, and in theory should work for a maven repository as well.

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OK it works fine! Thanks, Luca