Spring-boot BOM does not contain a dependency for tomcat-dbcp

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Spring-boot BOM does not contain a dependency for tomcat-dbcp.

I have a Spring MVC project where I use a database connection pool for Hibernate ORM connections. This project is deployed in Tomcat. In my IntelliJ Idea development environment I use Tomcat embedded, by using the spring-boot-starter-tomcat. But the spring-boot-starter-tomcat does not define a dependency to tomcat-dbcp. Hence I decided to explicitly define a dependency to tomcat-dbcp in my build.gradle.kts file.

I had hoped that the Spring-boot BOM would have contained tomcat-dbcp, so that I would not need to specify it's version number and rely on the Spring Boot dependency management system to handle it's version number for me. But the Spring-boot BOM does not contain a dependency for tomcat-dbcp. Can Spring-Boot add it?

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I came up with the following hack so as to not hard code the version number for tomcat-dbcp. Just added the following code to the build.gradle.kts file after dependencies section.

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy.eachDependency {
        if (requested.group == "org.apache.tomcat.embed" && requested.name == "tomcat-embed-core") {
            dependencies {
                providedRuntime("org.apache.tomcat", "tomcat-dbcp", requested.version)  //to use tomcat connection pool in tomcat embedded mode.
            }
        }
    }
}