Using Jackrabbit JCR 2.2.5 with SLF4J 1.6.1 and Logback Classic

Recently I was hit by a bug where it is impossible to use Jackrabbit 2.2.5 with SLF4J 1.6.1 due to a conflicting dependency error.
For some reason, SLF4J 1.5.11 is still loaded.

It turned that this is because Jackrabbit 2.2.5 depends on Apache Tika 0.8 which in turn depends on edu.ucar:netcdf:4.2 which bundles SLF4J 1.5. This error has since been fixed for Tika 0.9, so this should not be a problem for future Jackrabbit 2.3 versions.

To fix it, you need to exclude edu.ucar:netcdf:4.2 and replace the dependency with edu.ucar:netcdf:4.2-min as follows:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
    <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
    <version>0.8</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <!-- NOTE: Version 4.2 has bundled slf4j -->
            <groupId>edu.ucar</groupId>
            <artifactId>netcdf</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <!-- Patched version 4.2-min does not bundle slf4j -->
    <groupId>edu.ucar</groupId>
    <artifactId>netcdf</artifactId>
    <version>4.2-min</version>
</dependency>

Here's a complete Maven dependencies in pom.xml for Jackrabbit 2.2.5 and using SLF4J 1.6.1 with Logback classic logging implementation:

<!-- The JCR API -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>javax.jcr</groupId>
    <artifactId>jcr</artifactId>
    <version>2.0</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Jackrabbit content repository -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
    <artifactId>jackrabbit-core</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.5</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.tika</groupId>
    <artifactId>tika-parsers</artifactId>
    <version>0.8</version>
    <exclusions>
        <exclusion>
            <!-- NOTE: Version 4.2 has bundled slf4j -->
            <groupId>edu.ucar</groupId>
            <artifactId>netcdf</artifactId>
        </exclusion>
    </exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <!-- Patched version 4.2-min does not bundle slf4j -->
    <groupId>edu.ucar</groupId>
    <artifactId>netcdf</artifactId>
    <version>4.2-min</version>
</dependency>

<!-- Use Logback for logging -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
    <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
    <version>0.9.28</version>
    <scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>