Struts 2.1.6 and GUICE

Google GUICE is a great lightweight dependency injection framework that comes with a plugin for struts2. Using guice 2.0 and struts2.1.6 on tomcat6 I run into a dependency problem with different xwork and ognl jars provided by struts and the struts2 plugin from guice:

[INFO] +- org.apache.struts:struts2-core:jar:2.1.6:compile
[INFO] |  +- com.opensymphony:xwork:jar:2.1.2:compile
[INFO] |  |  \- org.springframework:spring-test:jar:2.5.6:test (scope managed from compile)
[INFO] |  +- opensymphony:ognl:jar:2.6.11:compile
[INFO] |  \- commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:jar:1.2.1:compile
...
[INFO] +- com.google.inject.extensions:guice-struts2-plugin:jar:2.0:compile
[INFO] |  \- opensymphony:xwork:jar:2.0.0:compile
[INFO] |     \- ognl:ognl:jar:2.6.9:compile

This can easily be resolved excluding the older OGNL library from guice like this in your POM:

    <dependency>
      <groupid>com.google.inject.extensions</groupid>
      <artifactid>guice-struts2-plugin</artifactid>
      <version>2.0</version>
        <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
          <groupid>opensymphony</groupid>
          <artifactid>xwork</artifactid>
        </exclusion>
        <exclusion>
          <groupid>ognl</groupid>
          <artifactid>ognl</artifactid>
        </exclusion>
      </exclusions>
    </dependency>