return addDependency(groupId, artifactId, version, scope, (Exclusion) null);
        }

        public ProjectBuilder addDependency(
                String groupId, String artifactId, String version, String scope, Exclusion exclusion) {
            return addDependency(groupId, artifactId, version, scope, null, exclusion);
        }

        public ProjectBuilder addDependency(

     * The collection of "G:A" combinations that do NOT belong to Maven Core, hence, should be excluded from
     * "expected in provided scope" type of checks.
     */
    static final Collection<String> EXPECTED_PROVIDED_SCOPE_EXCLUSIONS_GA =
            Collections.unmodifiableCollection(Arrays.asList(
                    "org.apache.maven:maven-archiver", "org.apache.maven:maven-jxr", "org.apache.maven:plexus-utils"));

package org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.filter;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;

/**
 * Filter to exclude from a list of artifact patterns.
 *
 * TODO I think this is equiv. to exclusion set filter in maven-core
 */
public class ExcludesArtifactFilter extends IncludesArtifactFilter {
    public ExcludesArtifactFilter(List<String> patterns) {
        super(patterns);
    }

                .map(Dependency::getArtifact)
                .filter(d -> "org.apache.maven".equals(d.getGroupId()))
                .filter(d -> !DefaultPluginValidationManager.EXPECTED_PROVIDED_SCOPE_EXCLUSIONS_GA.contains(
                        d.getGroupId() + ":" + d.getArtifactId()))
                .map(Artifact::getVersion)
                .filter(v -> v.startsWith("2."))
                .collect(Collectors.toSet());

                .map(org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency::getArtifact)
                .filter(a -> "org.apache.maven".equals(a.getGroupId()))
                .filter(a -> !DefaultPluginValidationManager.EXPECTED_PROVIDED_SCOPE_EXCLUSIONS_GA.contains(
                        a.getGroupId() + ":" + a.getArtifactId()))
                .filter(a -> a.getVersion().startsWith("3."))

        </field>
        <field>
          <name>exclusions</name>
          <version>4.0.0+</version>
          <description>Lists a set of artifacts that should be excluded from this dependency's
            artifact list when it comes to calculating transitive dependencies.</description>
          <association>
            <type>Exclusion</type>
            <multiplicity>*</multiplicity>
          </association>

                                    manageArtifact(child, managedVersions, listeners);

                                    // Also, we need to ensure that any exclusions it presents are
                                    // added to the artifact before we retrieve the metadata
                                    // for the artifact; otherwise we may end up with unwanted

    @Override
    public Collection<Exclusion> getExclusions() {
        return new MappedCollection<>(dependency.getExclusions(), this::toExclusion);
    }

    private Exclusion toExclusion(org.eclipse.aether.graph.Exclusion exclusion) {
        return new Exclusion() {
            @Nullable
            @Override
            public String getGroupId() {
                return exclusion.getGroupId();
            }

                            map(request.getExclusions(), this::toExclusion)));
        }
    }

    private org.eclipse.aether.graph.Exclusion toExclusion(Exclusion exclusion) {
        return new org.eclipse.aether.graph.Exclusion(exclusion.getGroupId(), exclusion.getArtifactId(), "*", "*");
    }

        Dependency dep1 = new Dependency();
        dep1.setGroupId( "test" );
        dep1.setArtifactId( "test-artifact" );
        dep1.setVersion( "1" );
        dep1.setType( "jar" );

        Exclusion exc = new Exclusion();
        exc.setGroupId( "test" );
        exc.setArtifactId( "test-artifact3" );

        dep1.addExclusion( exc );

        Dependency dep2 = new Dependency();
        dep2.setGroupId( "test" );