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Is it possible to exclude transitive runtime scope dependency from dependencies in POM?

I have a spring boot project which is having runtime transitive dependency on slf4j and log4j. Because of this I am seeing slf4j multiple binding warning and then an IllegalArgumentExceptionIllegalArgumentException. You can find below entire exception message :
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/pulkit/.m2/repository/com/xyz/platform/event/PlatformLibrary/1.0.1/PlatformLibrary-1.0.1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/pulkit/.m2/repository/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/1.2.3/logback-classic-1.2.3.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
[2021-03-04 08:41:59,594] INFO Kotlin reflection implementation not found at runtime, related features won't be available. (org.springframework.core.KotlinDetector)
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the classpath. Either remove Logback or the competing implementation (class org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory loaded from file:/Users/pulkit/.m2/repository/com/xyz/platform/event/PlatformLibrary/1.0.1/PlatformLibrary-1.0.1.jar). If you are using WebLogic you will need to add 'org.slf4j' to prefer-application-packages in WEB-INF/weblogic.xml: org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFacto
I read other answers related to same issue and tried excluding the slf4j binding from the platform library which is a private repo but I it doesn't seems to be working. Below is the exclusion block which I added in pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.xyz.platform.event</groupId>
<artifactId>PlatformLibrary</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
</exclusion>
<exclusion>
<groupId>log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
But this doesn't seems to be working however I am able to exclude the dependency from spring-boot-starter-web which works fine though probably due to older version it doesn't take use the property logging.pattern.console anymore.
Can somebody please suggest what can be done in this case?
I could see following in dependency tree
but for private library/package I couldn't see any dependency inside it, may be because it's dependency scope is runtime.
Note: I have changed the path of repo since it is a private repo.

Build failing when including the Openshift Java RESTClient

I have a project using Spring, and as soon as I include the below in my pom.xml file:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.openshift</groupId>
<artifactId>openshift-restclient-java</artifactId>
<version>6.1.3.Final</version>
</dependency>
I get the below set of errors. Any ideas on how to fix this?
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/m/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.25/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/Users/m/.m2/repository/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/1.2.3/logback-classic-1.2.3.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
The Class-Path manifest attribute in /Users/m/.m2/repository/org/liquibase/liquibase-core/3.5.5/liquibase-core-3.5.5.jar referenced one or more files that do not exist: file:/Users/m/.m2/repository/org/liquibase/liquibase-core/3.5.5/lib/snakeyaml-1.13.jar
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.boot.devtools.settings.DevToolsSettings).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.
Exception in thread "restartedMain" java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.RestartLauncher.run(RestartLauncher.java:49)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the classpath. Either remove Logback or the competing implementation (class org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory loaded from file:/Users/m/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.25/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.25.jar). If you are using WebLogic you will need to add 'org.slf4j' to prefer-application-packages in WEB-INF/weblogic.xml: org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory
at org.springframework.util.Assert.instanceCheckFailed(Assert.java:637)
at org.springframework.util.Assert.isInstanceOf(Assert.java:537)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.getLoggerContext(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:286)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:102)
at org.springframework.boot.context.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationStartingEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:191)
at org.springframework.boot.context.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:170)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.doInvokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:172)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:165)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:127)
at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.starting(EventPublishingRunListener.java:68)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.starting(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:48)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:319)
at com.g2.automationstation.AutomationstationApp.main(AutomationstationApp.java:63)
... 5 more

Both Spring boot and the Openshift library use slf4j, which is a logging bridge framework. However, they both include a different bindings:
Spring boot includes Logbback
Openshift includes log4j
You can fix this by excluding either one of them, for example:
<!-- language: lang-xml -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.openshift</groupId>
<artifactId>openshift-restclient-java</artifactId>
<version>6.1.3.Final</version>
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>

Log4j2 + logback accidental import seem to have destoyed logs of my Spring-boot

I've been with this project for months, so it now has huge amount of dependencies.
I was trying to import needed stuff for RESTcontroller so i could start developing the restcontroller, finally.
I go and import following:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
<version>${springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
None of these has logback? or so i've understand.
Now, i run the project again and ta daa. it wont start anymore.
https://imgur.com/a/Py9byTl [pic of error code]
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/clomez/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.7/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.7.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/clomez/.m2/repository/ch/qos/logback/logback-classic/1.1.11/logback-classic-1.1.11.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory]
ERROR StatusLogger Log4j2 could not find a logging implementation. Please add log4j-core to the classpath. Using SimpleLogger to log to the console...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: LoggerFactory is not a Logback LoggerContext but Logback is on the classpath. Either remove Logback or the competing implementation (class org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory loaded from file:/home/clomez/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.7/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.7.jar). If you are using WebLogic you will need to add 'org.slf4j' to prefer-application-packages in WEB-INF/weblogic.xml Object of class [org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory] must be an instance of class ch.qos.logback.classic.LoggerContext
at org.springframework.util.Assert.isInstanceOf(Assert.java:346)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.getLoggerContext(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:274)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.logback.LogbackLoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(LogbackLoggingSystem.java:98)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationStartingEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:230)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:209)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.doInvokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:172)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:165)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:122)
at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.starting(EventPublishingRunListener.java:69)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.starting(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:48)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:292)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1118)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1107)
at com.evli.endpoint.EndpointApplication.main(EndpointApplication.java:12)
So now i have two logging confs? Great.. i havent even configurated the original logging for module im using...
So i do mvn dependency:tree and ctrl + f for logback.
and there is one inside starter-validation.
So i do
<exclusions>
<exclusion>
<groupId>net.sf.ehcache</groupId>
<artifactId>ehcache</artifactId>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
And next problem.
https://imgur.com/a/qz65UWk
ERROR StatusLogger Log4j2 could not find a logging implementation. Please add log4j-core to the classpath. Using SimpleLogger to log to the console...
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.logging.log4j.simple.SimpleLoggerContext cannot be cast to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext
at org.springframework.boot.logging.log4j2.Log4J2LoggingSystem.getLoggerContext(Log4J2LoggingSystem.java:265)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.log4j2.Log4J2LoggingSystem.beforeInitialize(Log4J2LoggingSystem.java:132)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationStartingEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:230)
at org.springframework.boot.logging.LoggingApplicationListener.onApplicationEvent(LoggingApplicationListener.java:209)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.doInvokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:172)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.invokeListener(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:165)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:139)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:122)
at org.springframework.boot.context.event.EventPublishingRunListener.starting(EventPublishingRunListener.java:69)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplicationRunListeners.starting(SpringApplicationRunListeners.java:48)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:292)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1118)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:1107)
at com.evli.endpoint.EndpointApplication.main(EndpointApplication.java:12)
I now have 0 configuration for my logger?
This may seem like a small problem, but the guy who has ALL the information about log and configurations is on vaction and i cant for life of me understand why logging in JVM have to be so hard..
Did i just loose all my configurations?
Do i have to roll back on git?
as a bonus, im pretty sure i've had starter-validation for months in my pom.
Im not aware of any changes in log4j2.xml in ressources (which i do not touch), or have i allowed any changes from intelliJ...
EDIT: errors added as text.
EDIT2: Even reverting last git push didnt do anything..... what on earth can i do?!

Needed to revert back to older commit.
Lesson learned, maybe don't keep "auto import maven changes" on, atleast when adding risky dependencies.

Java log: failed to load slf4j but I'm using log4j2. How to fix?

When I run my jar file, I get the following error:
SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
The problem is that I'm not using slf4j, I'm using log4j2. It is used by a dependency. Maven correctly includes org.slf4j:slf4j-api as a transitive dependency of a library that I'm using.
How do I get rid of this warning? I do not even want to log problems with this dependency.

I've solved it with this dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
<artifactId>log4j-slf4j-impl</artifactId>
<version>2.11.0</version>
</dependency>
This will add the log4j2 as the implementation of slf4j api. I can even display log events of the dependency if I want.

Failed to found StaticLoggerBinder in project

I have project with some modules. In parent I have defined:
org.apache.logging.log4j
log4j-slf4j-impl
${version.log4j}
runtime
but when I want to deploy application then StaticLoggerBinder is not found:
No org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder found in ClassPath, trying with log4j...
but when I add depenedcy just into this project
<dependency>
<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
<artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
<version>${version.log4j}</version>
</dependency>
then 2 StaticLoggerBinder is founded:
SLF4J: Class path contains multiple SLF4J bindings.
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/hudect/.m2/repository/org/slf4j/slf4j-log4j12/1.7.5/slf4j-log4j12-1.7.5.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: Found binding in [jar:file:/home/hudect/.m2/repository/org/apache/logging/log4j/log4j-slf4j-impl/2.0-rc1/log4j-slf4j-impl-2.0-rc1.jar!/org/slf4j/impl/StaticLoggerBinder.class]
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#multiple_bindings for an explanation.
SLF4J: Actual binding is of type [org.slf4j.impl.Log4jLoggerFactory]
as you can see second one is from my parent project. I am really confused why this happens. Can someone me explain me how should I fix it ?

Do you also have the log4j-core and log4j-api dependencies?