diff --git a/components/camel-slack/pom.xml b/components/camel-slack/pom.xml
index 24ac3e9..ddb11dc 100644
--- a/components/camel-slack/pom.xml
+++ b/components/camel-slack/pom.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@
             <groupId>com.googlecode.json-simple</groupId>
             <artifactId>json-simple</artifactId>
             <version>${json-simple-version}</version>
+            <exclusions>
+               <exclusion>
+                   <groupId>junit</groupId>
+                   <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+               </exclusion>
+            </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
         <dependency>