Not exactly. The soft version is the version that will be used if it fits in the valid ranges, and ignored if not. The conflict resolver in play decides whether to use the nearest or newest of these versions - in 2.0 only "nearest" was enabled.
If you want to allow a range, you have to give it an actual range in the dependency declaration. We're certainly looking to make some improvements to this based on experience in 2.1 which is in planning now - so I appreciate any suggestions. Either scheme will let you do what you want using a range whether it is [2.4,2.5) or [1.0,); it's just a matter of what you find friendliest and most manageable from a perspective of releasing the specs. Maybe this is better: servlet-2.4-spec-1.0 Where 1.0 is the version, servlet-2.4-spec is the artifact Id. Cheers, Brett On 11/1/05, Dain Sundstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From what I read on the maven wiki, you support soft versions, so > using the style you described below would <version>2.4</version> > resolve to the newest 2.4* version you have in your local repo. Is > that accurate? > > -dain
