In an Android Gradle build, how to exclude dependencies from an included jar file?

Exclude the Group in the dependencies by using the below lines.

1.

configurations {
    all*.exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-v4'
}

2.

dependencies {
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:13.0.+'
    compile ("com.xxx:xxx-commons:1.+") {
        exclude group: 'junit', module: 'junit'
    }
}

3.

configurations {
    runtime.exclude group: "org.slf4j", module: "slf4j-log4j12"
}

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