"Shading" obviosuly comes from the plugin of the same name. But I think of shading to refer more to the practice of repacking classes into a single jar, than

"Shading" obviosuly comes from the plugin of the same name. But I think of shading to refer more to the practice of repacking classes into a single jar, than the renaming of package name spaces. As far as the standard approach to supporting muliple library versions in one application, i think OSGI is probably the closest thing to a workable solution.