Thanks @ask_bill_brooks . Much appreciate the reply.   I did solve the problem using an uber/fat jar. However, I was hoping for an elegant solution.  I did look into shading on gradle but it was too confusing and difficult to explain and maintain. sbt didn't seem to have shading (or an easier approaching to shading).  At the moment, we are stuck with a fat jar. Hope there is an easier deployment method in the future via the dependencies.scala file. ... View more