If you’re using apache.commons.configuration to manage .properties files in your project, you’re probably facing the following problem: Apache.commons.configuration depends on apache.common.logging which is included in maven:3.5, but was removed from maven:3.6. Thus, if you want to upgrade you will need to find a different way to parse your properties. Java offers the java.util.Properties class (see https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/environment/properties.html), which is a subclass of java.util.Hashtable. It maintains a list of keys and values, both are of type String, and provides methods for the following operations: Loading and saving the properties, getting a value by key, listing the keys and values, enumerating over the keys, and the methods inherited […]