javax.annotation-api is a dependency in the root pom of Narayana. As a consequence, this dependency is injected in all modules that Narayana is composed by. When trying to remove this dependency from the root pom (declaring it when needed) Narayana still builds fine BUT WildFly (in its building process) starts complaining about javax.annotation-api as a "transitive" dependency in some modules of the Narayana project. The only way to stop these error messages is to exclude javax.annotation-api from the dependencies that transitively include it. A better solution, of course, is to update javax.annotation-api to the Jakarta namespace.