No need to exclude transitive depends when the trigger is itself optional.

Also updated our test depends just for kicks.

pom.xml

@@ -67,11 +67,6 @@
       <version>1.6.4</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
       <optional>true</optional>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion><groupId>com.sun.jmx</groupId><artifactId>jmxri</artifactId></exclusion>
-        <exclusion><groupId>oro</groupId><artifactId>oro</artifactId></exclusion>
-        <exclusion><groupId>junit</groupId><artifactId>junit</artifactId></exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>commons-digester</groupId>
@@ -79,24 +74,21 @@
       <version>2.0</version>
       <scope>compile</scope>
       <optional>true</optional>
-      <exclusions>
-        <exclusion><groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
-                   <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId></exclusion>
-      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
       <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-      <version>4.8.1</version>
+      <version>4.10</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
       <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-      <version>2.0.0</version>
+      <version>2.2.4</version>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
   </dependencies>
+
   <build>
     <!-- we include a few source files in our main jar for use by GWT -->
     <resources>