this.featurePreviews = [] as String[]
        this.externalApiDependencies = [
            commonsLang: 'commons-lang:commons-lang:2.5',
            commonsHttpClient: 'commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:3.0',
            commonsCodec: 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.2',
            jclOverSlf4j: 'org.slf4j:jcl-over-slf4j:1.7.10',
        ]
    }

        TestFile dslDir = sample.dir.file(dsl)
        executer.inDirectory(dslDir)

        when:
        succeeds(COPY_LIBS_TASK_NAME)

        then:
        dslDir.file('build/libs/httpclient-4.5.3.jar').isFile()
        dslDir.file('build/libs/commons-codec-1.11.jar').isFile()

        where:
        dsl << ['groovy', 'kotlin']
    }

				<include name="lang-expression/asm-*" />
				<include name="lang-painless/asm-*" />
				<include name="reindex/commons-codec-*" />
				<include name="reindex/commons-logging-*" />
				<include name="reindex/httpclient-*" />
				<include name="reindex/httpcore-4*" />
			</fileset>
		</delete>
	</target>

	serverURL := &url.URL{
		Scheme: endpoint.Scheme,
		Host:   endpoint.Host,
		Path:   pathJoin(healthCheckPathPrefix, healthCheckLivenessPath),
	}

	httpClient := &http.Client{
		Transport: globalInternodeTransport,
	}

	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(GlobalContext, timeout)
	defer cancel()

	PushFunc func()

	// cache for JWT public key.
	// map key is jwtKey, map value is jwtPubKeyEntry.
	keyEntries sync.Map

	secureHTTPClient *http.Client
	httpClient       *http.Client
	refreshTicker    *time.Ticker

	// Cached key will be removed from cache if (time.now - cachedItem.lastUsedTime >= evictionDuration), this prevents key cache growing indefinitely.

				</exclusion>
			</exclusions>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.codelibs.fesen.client</groupId>
			<artifactId>fesen-httpclient</artifactId>
			<version>${fesen.httpclient.version}</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.ow2.asm</groupId>
			<artifactId>asm</artifactId>
			<version>${asm.version}</version>
		</dependency>

====

Let's say a project uses the link:https://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/[HttpClient library] for performing HTTP calls. HttpClient pulls in link:https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-codec/[Commons Codec] as transitive dependency with version 1.10.

import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomUtils;
import org.codelibs.core.lang.StringUtil;
import org.codelibs.core.lang.ThreadUtil;
import org.codelibs.fesen.client.HttpClient;
import org.codelibs.fess.crawler.exception.EsAccessException;
import org.opensearch.OpenSearchException;
import org.opensearch.action.ActionRequest;
import org.opensearch.action.ActionType;

        this.clusterName = clusterName;
    }

    public EngineInfo getEngineInfo() {
        if (client instanceof final HttpClient httpClient) {
            return httpClient.getEngineInfo();
        }
        throw new SearchEngineClientException("client is not HttpClient.");
    }

    //
    // Fesen Client
    //

    @Override
    public ThreadPool threadPool() {

        final RequestHeaderService requestHeaderService = ComponentUtil.getComponent(RequestHeaderService.class);
        final FessConfig fessConfig = ComponentUtil.getFessConfig();

        // HttpClient Parameters
        final Map<String, Object> paramMap = new HashMap<>();
        factory.setInitParameterMap(paramMap);

        final Map<String, String> clientConfigMap = getConfigParameterMap(ConfigName.CLIENT);