Oops, let me try again:

I'm upgrading from JBoss Cache 1.4 -> 2.1 in Seam (http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBSEAM-2522). Seam uses Maven for its dependency management, so I'm trying to use the published POMs on repository.jboss.org/maven2.

As I understand it, JBoss Cache should be usable outside a JavaEE environment running in JBoss AS which uses sleepycat je, c3p0 etc. (you get the point ;)

If so, the POMs should specify any optional dependencies as optional, like:

<dependency>
 <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
 <optional>true</optional>
</dependency>

 <dependency>
 <groupId>org.jboss.cache</groupId>
 <artifactId>jbosscache-pojo</artifactId>
 <version>2.1.0.CR3</version>
 <exclusions>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>jdbm</groupId>
 <artifactId>jdbm</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>c3p0</groupId>
 <artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>sleepycat</groupId>
 <artifactId>je</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>org.jboss.javaee</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-javaee</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>org.jboss.microcontainer</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-container</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>org.jboss</groupId>
 <artifactId>jboss-common-core</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 <exclusion>
 <groupId>net.jcip</groupId>
 <artifactId>jcip-annotations</artifactId>
 </exclusion>
 </exclusions>
 </dependency>

Ah, thanks Manik, I didn't look in JIRA, oops ;)