If you provide the correct exclusions in your POM file you can use it (try below and if it does not work use the
maven dependency tree to figure out what else is being pulled in.
But to your question, this is not used much anymore as the preferred validation approach has changed. Have a look at your other
thread I posted in.
https://coderanch.com/t/599152/Spring/adding-commons-validator-dependency-pom