Yes. You use the dependencyManagement to specify stuff like version and scope. Each project where you have the dependency you still need to specify it. However, you just state groupId and artifactId.
/Anders On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 20:02, Quintin Beukes <quin...@skywalk.co.za> wrote: > Thanks, that looks good. > > Re. the <dependencyManagement> element. When I include a set of > dependencies in my parent POM, they won't be included in the child > POMs unless I excplicitely list them there? Meaning it's effect is > only when the dependency is listed in a child without a version? > > Quintin Beukes > > > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Jason van Zyl <ja...@sonatype.com> wrote: > > You really need to read the book. > > > > > http://www.sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/optimizing-sect-dependencies.html > > > > On 2009-10-10, at 9:29 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > > > >> Hey, > >> > >> We have certain dependencies like OpenEJB, Geronimo and Hibernate > >> being used throughout our project. When we upgrade the version > >> (especially with minor revisions) it's merely a process of changing > >> all the <version> elements to the new version. Though, being many > >> projects this is a tedious process, and you sometimes miss one/two. > >> > >> Isn't there a way to define some properties in the parent POM and have > >> them propagate to the children, to be referenced from there? Or to > >> maybe declare some dependency groups in the parent POM, and then > >> reference them by group in the child projects? > >> > >> Quintin Beukes > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >> > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jason > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Jason van Zyl > > Founder, Apache Maven > > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
