A small utility that finds manually overridden dependencies in a Maven POM, or Gradle file for a Spring Boot application.
- Node.js 22 or higher
npm install -g spring-boot-dependency-checker
spring-boot-dependency-checker location/to/pom.xml
Package entries in the JSON output include versionComparison with one of: older, same, or newer (comparing inputFileVersion against bootVersion).
Top-level output also includes packageLength and propertyLength for quick counts.
| File type | Dependencies | Properties |
|---|---|---|
| Maven POM | ✓ | ✓ |
build.gradle |
✓ | ✗ |
Maven POM is the most accurate because it's generated from the source file
build.gradle does not support overwritten properties because those usually come from a separate file