-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Starting in maven2, we have two features you might be able to take advantage of:
1. transitive dependency resolution This is the resolution of your dependencies' dependencies and so on until the full closure is calculated, and is automatic. To help reduce the bloat which is imminent in this type of system, we've also added dependency scopes (compile, runtime, test) which will resolve different sets depending on the specific application (whether you're currently running unit tests, bundling the app, etc.). 2. <dependencyManagement/> POM section This new section is meant to be specified in a parent POM for your projects, and will help you to manage scope and version information for a set of standardized dependencies. In other words, if many - BUT NOT NECESSARILY ALL - of your projects use servletapi, you can specify an entry in <dependencyManagement/> in a common ancestor-POM which specifies the version '2.3' for servletapi. Then, when one of your projects references servletapi, it need only specify <groupId/> and <artifactId/> for that dependency, and the version will be retrieved from the <dependencyManagement/> section (NOTE: specifying the version locally will override the standards defined in the managed information). Do these satisfy your requirements? You can find more information at http://maven.apache.org/maven2 (although that site is very much a work in progress)... If this doesn't settle your specific issue, feel free to refine your question, and we'll do our best to address it. HTH, - -john solo turn wrote: > is there any possibility (or if not, plan to allow) to include > multiple jars with stating just one dependency? > > most of our projects depend on the same set of jars, but this may > change depending on the base version of the jars, and for ALL > projects. > > what we try to avoid is editing these dependencies in all projects > (i.e. add or remove a jar, adjust the versions of all of it). we would > like to just increase the version of the one dependency. > > -solo. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCpeh/K3h2CZwO/4URAi41AJ4yF9hWyDPihRIppEy87Qw9/EFtXQCgo5xM iEAQTx3jpb1zYFACxQw3TRQ= =X7r5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
