I was trying to centralize enforcer configuration to make use of banned dependencies, configured following in parent pom.xml:
<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.0-beta-1</version> <executions> <execution> <id>enforce-banned-dependencies-track-level</id> <goals> <goal>enforce</goal> </goals> <configuration> <rules> <bannedDependencies> <searchTransitive>true</searchTransitive> <excludes> <exclude>junit</exclude> </excludes> <includes> <include>junit:junit:3.8.1</include> </includes> </bannedDependencies> Ànd inside the project which has above a parent, I did this: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.3.1</version> </dependency> </dependencies> I would have expected that mvn validate will fail, as clearly version is among the banned ones.... But alas, it passes clean... trace below... Any ideas? Regards Pavel TRACE: Apache Maven 3.0 (r1004208; 2010-10-04 12:50:56+0100) Java version: 1.5.0_16-rev Java home: /home/epasmir/bin/jdk/jre Default locale: en, platform encoding: ISO646-US OS name: "sunos" version: "5.10" arch: "sparc" Family: "unix" Skipped... [DEBUG] Configuring mojo org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0-beta-1:enforce from plugin realm ClassRealm[plugin>org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0-beta-1, parent: ClassRealm[maven.api, parent: null]] [DEBUG] Configuring mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin:1.0-beta-1:enforce' with basic configurator --> [DEBUG] (s) fail = true [DEBUG] (s) failFast = false [DEBUG] (f) ignoreCache = false [DEBUG] (s) project = MavenProject: sample:item2:1.0-SNAPSHOT @ /home/epasmir/poc/reactor/item2/pom.xml [DEBUG] (s) searchTransitive = true [DEBUG] (s) excludes = [junit] [DEBUG] (s) includes = [junit:junit:3.8.1] [DEBUG] (f) message = Best Practice is to always define plugin versions! [DEBUG] (f) banLatest = true [DEBUG] (f) banRelease = true [DEBUG] (s) banSnapshots = true [DEBUG] (s) rules = [org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BannedDependencies@110278e, org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.RequirePluginVersions@194e776] [DEBUG] (s) session = org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession@1342545 [DEBUG] (s) skip = false [DEBUG] -- end configuration -- [DEBUG] Executing rule: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.BannedDependencies --------------- SHOULD HAVE failed here ?! [DEBUG] Executing rule: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.RequirePluginVersions (that's fine I guess) [WARNING] This rule is not compatible with the current version of Maven. The rule is not able to perform any checks. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 9.203s [INFO] Finished at: Mon Apr 18 15:12:04 BST 2011 [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/5M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------