maven-dependency-analyzer finds too many used dependencies
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Key: MNG-3620
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3620
Project: Maven 2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Dependencies
Affects Versions: Shared Components
Reporter: Matthew Beermann
I'll just quote the post from our internal mailing list:
"I don't like that plugin - it has reported dozens of missing dependencies that
were unnecessary for me, so I stopped using it. The most common example is when
you have a dependency on a project that has a dependency on Xerces, Xalan or
some other XML project and your project has java.xml.* imports, which you're
resolving from the JDK, it gives a higher priority to external dependencies,
even if another project introduces them, than it does to JDK libraries."
I've got a (possible) patch coming up in a few...
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