Here is another use case. Suppose I programmatically want to make sure that my database is backwards compatible with all versions of my application. I may have a test suite that compiles the project using different jars, which represent different versions of the persistence module.
I can verify no exceptions or errors and that data can be extracted. I could alos programmatically determine that a database created with any version was readable by any other version. This is huge! Imagine the database is expanding, fields being added and deleted. If the database was created and writen using my-database-1.0.3-jar, could it be read with 1.0.2-jar and 1.0.5-jar. You may not be able to do anything about 1.0.2 reading 1.0.3, because 1.0.3 is already released, but that would enable you to create a database jar that was forward compatible (or scalable) and backwards compatible. -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Is-there-any-maven-plugin-to-add-dependency-to-existing-pom-xml-tp2839092p5772861.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
