diff --git a/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/ArtifactResolver.java b/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/ArtifactResolver.java
index 26b2817f..8e351193 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/ArtifactResolver.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/ArtifactResolver.java
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@
 import org.eclipse.aether.artifact.DefaultArtifact;
 import org.eclipse.aether.collection.CollectRequest;
 import org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency;
+import org.eclipse.aether.graph.DependencyNode;
+import org.eclipse.aether.graph.DependencyVisitor;
 import org.eclipse.aether.repository.RemoteRepository;
 import org.eclipse.aether.repository.RepositoryPolicy;
 import org.eclipse.aether.resolution.ArtifactRequest;
@@ -223,7 +225,7 @@ private List<Artifact> resolvePlugin(Plugin plugin, Configuration config) {
 
         if (config.verifyPluginDependencies) {
             // we need resolve all transitive dependencies
-            result = resolvePluginArtifactsTransitive(pArtifact, pluginDependencies, config.verifyPomFiles);
+            result = resolvePluginArtifactsTransitive(pArtifact, pluginDependencies, config.dependencyFilter, config.verifyPomFiles);
         } else {
             // only resolve plugin artifact
             List<org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact> aeArtifacts = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -240,7 +242,7 @@ private List<Artifact> resolvePlugin(Plugin plugin, Configuration config) {
 
     private List<org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact> resolvePluginArtifactsTransitive(
             org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact artifact,
-            List<Dependency> dependencies, boolean verifyPomFiles) {
+            List<Dependency> dependencies, SkipFilter dependencyFilter, boolean verifyPomFiles) {
 
         CollectRequest collectRequest = new CollectRequest(new Dependency(artifact, "runtime"),
                 remotePluginRepositories);
@@ -252,12 +254,21 @@ private List<org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact> resolvePluginArtifactsTransit
                         .recover(DependencyResolutionException.class, DependencyResolutionException::getResult)
                         .get();
 
-        List<org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact> result = new ArrayList<>(
-                dependencyResult.getArtifactResults().stream()
-                        .map(aResult -> aResult.isResolved() ?
-                                aResult.getArtifact() :
-                                aResult.getRequest().getArtifact())
-                        .collect(Collectors.toList()));
+        List<org.eclipse.aether.artifact.Artifact> result = new ArrayList<>();
+        dependencyResult.getRoot().accept(new DependencyVisitor() {
+            @Override
+            public boolean visitEnter(DependencyNode node) {
+                if (node.getArtifact() != null && !dependencyFilter.shouldSkipDependency(node.getDependency())) {
+                    result.add(node.getArtifact());
+                }
+                return true;
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public boolean visitLeave(DependencyNode node) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        });
 
         if (verifyPomFiles) {
             resolvePoms(result, remotePluginRepositories);
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/skipfilters/SkipFilter.java b/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/skipfilters/SkipFilter.java
index d4b1b022..a2605572 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/skipfilters/SkipFilter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/simplify4u/plugins/skipfilters/SkipFilter.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 package org.simplify4u.plugins.skipfilters;
 
+import org.apache.maven.RepositoryUtils;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.Artifact;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.DefaultArtifact;
 import org.apache.maven.artifact.handler.manager.ArtifactHandlerManager;
@@ -53,4 +54,12 @@ default boolean shouldSkipDependency(Dependency dependency, ArtifactHandlerManag
                         artifactHandlerManager.getArtifactHandler(dependency.getType()));
         return shouldSkipArtifact(artifact);
     }
+
+    default boolean shouldSkipDependency(org.eclipse.aether.graph.Dependency dependency) {
+
+        Artifact artifact = RepositoryUtils.toArtifact(dependency.getArtifact());
+        artifact.setScope(dependency.getScope());
+        artifact.setOptional(dependency.getOptional());
+        return shouldSkipArtifact(artifact);
+    }
 }