The following comment has been added to this issue:
Author: Rafal Krzewski
Created: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 6:24 AM
Body:
Valid concern - but missed concept.
The thing that you seem to need is transitive dependencies support, which is
orthogonal to POM inheritance.
It has been discussed before and it is a wanted and planned feature.
In short, you should be able to mark a project's dependency as transitive. Such
dependency will be automatically exported to the projects that depend on that project.
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Key: MAVEN-1084
Summary: Composition of dependencies from many projects (a route round multiple
inheritance)
Type: New Feature
Status: Unassigned
Priority: Minor
Original Estimate: 4 hours
Time Spent: Unknown
Remaining: 4 hours
Project: maven
Components:
core
Assignee:
Reporter: Mike Melia
Created: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 12:40 AM
Updated: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 6:24 AM
Description:
I have an EAR project that has (mostly) the same dependencies as an EJB project.
The EAR project includes the dependent jars in the EAR artifact.
The EJB project requires the dependent jars for compilation and for them to be
included in the manifest classpath.
I also have another project that builds a utility jar for use by both the EAR and EJB
project.
All projects extend a base project with the usual info defined (developers names
etc.). This single inheritance forces me to duplicate the common dependency
declarations in each subproject.
Ideally I would like an include tag in the dependencies section.
I have coded a workaround which allows for a space separated list of project files in
the <extend> tag. e.g <extend>../project.xml ../common_dependencies.xml</extend>
The first file would be the parent project and the subsequent files would contain
common dependencies. i.e. inherit from the parent and have dependencies composed from
siblings.
I will submit a patch for that functionality as soon as I get away from the corporate
firewall.
Please let me know if this sort of functionality has already been planned. TIA.
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