Currently, we're mostly using properties to define versions of our dependencies.
For example,
<properties>
<jaxb.api.version>2.1</jaxb.api.version>
</properties>
and later in a submodule:
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.xml.bind</groupId>
<artifactId>jaxb-api</artifactId>
<version>${jaxb.api.version}</version>
</dependency>
It seems that this way of handling dependencies does not work very well.
If another dependency uses the same mechanism but with a different
version, I've seen maven using the one from the dependency instead of
the one specified in the root pom.
I think we should change this mechanism and use the
<dependencyManagement/> section of the pom instead.
Thoughts ?
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Cheers,
Guillaume Nodet
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