+1
I would go for <dependencyManagement/> as well.
Regards
Lars
Am Donnerstag 18 September 2008 15:26:46 schrieb Guillaume Nodet:
> 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 ?
