Hi all,
is there a way to provide users of a plugin a way of easily switching
dependencies of it?
Background: I'm developing a Maven plugin (jQAssistant) that comes with
a dependency to Neo4j (graph database). Currently I'm using Neo4j 2.3.x
which has been compiled against Java 7 but I would like to offer users
of the Maven plugin an easy option to use the newer Neo4j 3.x releases
which offer some new features but require Java 8.
I know that it's possible to overwrite an existing dependency for a
plugin, e.g.
<plugin>
<groupId>com.buschmais.jqassistant</groupId>
<artifactId>jqassistant-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.3.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3</version> <!-- instead of the default 2.3.10 -->
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
The problem is that in my case the old version comes with another set of
dependencies than the new one:
old:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j</artifactId>
<version>2.3.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j.app</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j-server</artifactId>
<version>2.3.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j.app</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j-server</artifactId>
<classifier>static-web</classifier>
<version>2.3.10</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
new:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.neo4j.app</groupId>
<artifactId>neo4j-server</artifactId>
<version>3.1.3</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Is there a good way to deal with it such that a user of the
jqassistant-maven-plugin can easily switch between both variants?
Cheers,
Dirk
Senior Consultant IT
buschmais GbR
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