another thing I find handy is for projects where you prepare a ear file that you don't want the internal war files to contain all their dependencies you can set the scope of the jars in the top lvl depedency management section to 'provided' and then in the ear toggle them back so they get put in the right place...
helps prevent those 300meg ears :P jesse On 1/6/06, Rinku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think the idea of <dependencyManagement> is to baseline common > dependencies > and their versions. > > If you want to use the version 1.7.0 in the quoted example you need to > specify > > <dependency> > <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId> > <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId> > </dependency> > > in your child/extended poms. However, if you do specify a version in the > child > pom, it should override the one specified in the parent pom under > <dependencyManagement> > > Cheers, > Rahul > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christian Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Maven Users List" <users@maven.apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 5:20 AM > Subject: [m2] dependencyManagement question ? > > > > Hi, > > > > I have a question regarding the <dependencyManagement> section in the > pom.xml > > files. When I have several dependencies and there are conflicts in the > > transitive dependencies (e.g. commons-beanutils-1.6.1 and > > commons-beanutils-1.7.0) I thought I could specifiy the version to use > in the > > <dependencyManagement> section. Is that correct ? Say I put > > > > <dependencyManagement> > > <dependency> > > <groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId> > > <artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId> > > <version>1.7.0</version> > > </dependency> > > </dependencyManagement> > > > > in my pom. This does not lead to maven using only that version no matter > what > > version is specified in the referenced poms ? > > > > -- > > Christian > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- jesse mcconnell
