**[Drummond Dawson](https://jira.spring.io/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=drumonii)** opened **[BATCH-2701](https://jira.spring.io/browse/BATCH-2701?redirect=false)** and commented Apache commons-collections appears to be unused in the spring-batch-test module, as the only instance of apache commons used is commons logging. --- **Affects:** 4.0.1, 4.1.0.RC1 **Referenced from:** pull request https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/pull/645, and commits https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/commit/eb84ac4195cb8badbfe5e55daea22fc678132457, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/commit/0845520070c207686e0050a077f3b4cb3fb5c646 **Backported to:** [4.0.2](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch/milestone/91?closed=1)