interop method confusion?

[hiskennyness]

This code excerpt (most significantly the createProducer call) works swimmingly:

(defn t-prod [ct]
  (with-open [client (PulsarClient/create "http://localhost:8080")]
    (pln :client (bean client))
    (with-open [prod (.createProducer client "persistent://sample/standalone/ns1/ktopic")]
      (println prod) ...etc

...without the "ouch" dependency in project.clj:

(defproject putest "0.1.0-SNAPSHOT"
  :description "FIXME: write description"
  :url "http://example.com/FIXME"
  
  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0"]
                 [com.yahoo.pulsar/pulsar-client "1.14"]
                 [com.yahoo.pulsar/pulsar-client-admin "1.14"] ;; ouch
                 ]
  :main ^:skip-aot putest.core
  :target-path "target/%s" 

  :profiles {:uberjar {:aot :all}})

With that dependency, the code hangs on the call to createProducer.

I am going to investigate the possibility that the second pulsar lib creates an ambiguity or simply displaces a method from the first, but any hints from the cognoscenti are welcome. :)

-kt

ps. Java noob as well as Clojure interop noob.