I have strange issues with au.com.dius.pact.providerspring64.5.3 (and older versions as well). When I add the dependency to a plain Gradle build file and run "gradle dependencies" the dependencies are not resolved: \-- au.com.dius.pact.providerspring64.5.3 FAILED the reason I think is the missing version on the dependency to org.apache.groovy:groovy If I include the dependency in our own build, I get NullPointerExceptions or other strange errors. see https://github.com/pact-foundation/pact-jvm/blob/v4.5.x/provider/spring6/build.gradle#L33

What version of Gradle are you using?