Hi Beamers, I recently was a part of a discussion about some dependency incompatibilities in the Java SDK. Specifically on the GRPC versions when trying to use one of the Google Cloud client libraries as part of a Beam pipeline. Their workaround was downgrading to an older version of the client library to match Beam's version of the GRPC library. However, this could not have been possible if they *needed* the newer version for any reason.
I'm aware that Java development environments usually prefer to hardcode versions to avoid breaking changes, but it would be great to have the latest versions of dependencies that could be *shared* with other libraries, like the GRPC libraries. It looks like the Google Cloud client library team has been aware of this problem, as well as the tricky interactions between the hundreds of libraries they offer. They mentioned that they are starting to roll out a GCP Libraries BOM <https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-opensource-java/wiki/The-Google-Cloud-Platform-Libraries-BOM> to help everyone have up-to-date versions of their libraries, including *guava*, *protobuf*, *grpc-java*, *google-http-java-client*, and *google-cloud-java*. Would everyone feel comfortable on using the BOM to manage the Google Cloud dependency versions? If so, is there anyone comfortable in Gradle willing to do these changes? Cheers! David
