I work for a company. I’m using eclipse.
I manage a project.
That project is dependent on a library that we built that manages all of the “Common Jobs” across all of our applications.

MyApp has a dependency to CommonJobs.

MyApp is using Spring.4.3.13.RELEASE.
SOMEONE on our team updated CommonJobs to use Spring 5.2.8.RELEASE.

Can MyApp actually use CommonJobs without updating to Spring 5.2.8?

I’ve tried running the job locally, and it did run. But when I deploy to our servers and try to run it fails. I don’t how to explain all of the potential points of failure here.

I’m aware that there’s a difference between Eclipse deployment assembly/EAR manifest entries (local) and Maven POM (when built and deployed to our server).

So I’m trying to get at principles with this question. Can a Spring 4 project be dependent on a Spring 5 project and still run?