Yes custom class loaders can solve this. Eclipse had an entire OSGI module system that did this among other things. In general though Java (and Kotlin) have bee

Yes custom class loaders can solve this. Eclipse had an entire OSGI module system that did this among other things. In general though Java (and Kotlin) have been trending toward simpler and lighter though for years and I’d recommend just sorting out your dependencies, even drop some, to avoid that kind of thing.