Tim talks about this in this blog post: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/10/maven-tips-and-tricks-grouping-dependencies/
A pom artifact is an artifact like all others...it's just that the artifact is the pom itself. /Anders On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 19:59, Laird Nelson <ljnel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ron Wheeler < > rwhee...@artifact-software.com > > wrote: > > > We follow Stephen's path but build aggregation poms that only contain > > libraries so that our project POMs only depend on our libraries. > > For example if the war file needs the Apache Commons that we support in > our > > development environment, the project will depend on the current version > of > > ours-lib-commons.pom. > > > > Just out of curiosity, where is it written down that one can depend on an > artifact of type pom? I've always been curious about this. > > L >
