I have a build where I need to apply overrides to a dependency. What I'd like the build to do is grab the existing dependency, add the overrides, and reuse the same dependency with a different/version (same groupId & artifactId). This way in my top level pom's dependency management section I could just specify that all modules (except the one creating the override version) must use the new modified version.
But how can I do this because then the module applying the overrides would want to start with the new version too. What I'm thinking might work is either: 1. A bootstrapping module/plugin where I can apply the overrides first before the rest of the build really starts. 2. A plugin that can inject the new artifact into the build in such a way that other dependent modules can specify if they want to use the old/previous version or the new one. Is anything like this possible?
