diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a980f7d9f..4347e4b13 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@
             <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
             <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
             <version>${lombok.version}</version>
+            <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
@@ -173,7 +174,7 @@
                 <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                 <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                 <version>1.18.24</version>
-                <scope>compile</scope>
+                <scope>provided</scope>
             </dependency>
 
             <!-- Hudi -->
diff --git a/xtable-utilities/pom.xml b/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
index d9f64f65f..691a0172e 100644
--- a/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
+++ b/xtable-utilities/pom.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,44 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.xtable</groupId>
             <artifactId>xtable-core</artifactId>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.antlr</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>antlr4-runtime</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.activation</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.activation-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.ws.rs-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- command line arg parsing -->
@@ -62,19 +100,33 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
-            <artifactId>log4j-slf4j2-impl</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Spark -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
             <artifactId>spark-core_${scala.version.prefix}</artifactId>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.zookeeper</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>zookeeper</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.servlet.jsp</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
             <scope>runtime</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
@@ -87,12 +139,44 @@
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
            <artifactId>hadoop-common</artifactId>
+           <exclusions>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>com.github.pjfanning</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>jersey-json</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>com.sun.jersey</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>com.sun.xml.bind</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>jaxb-impl</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>*</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>javax.ws.rs</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>jsr311-api</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+           </exclusions>
            <scope>compile</scope>
        </dependency>
 
         <dependency>
-           <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
-           <artifactId>parquet-avro</artifactId>
+            <groupId>org.apache.parquet</groupId>
+            <artifactId>parquet-avro</artifactId>
+            <exclusions>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>javax.annotation-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <!-- AWS Dependencies -->
@@ -100,10 +184,6 @@
             <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
             <artifactId>hadoop-aws</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-            <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-bundle</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Azure Dependencies -->
         <dependency>
@@ -126,6 +206,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-jupiter-engine</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>