Provide full information in the attached POM to the artifact JAR
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Key: MNG-4502
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4502
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: POM
Affects Versions: 2.2.0
Reporter: Mina R Waheeb
In the current implementation of the JAR packaging, the POM file is copied as
is to META-INF/maven/groupId/artifactId/pom.xml. The POM inheritance makes this
file useless to identify this artifact outside the maven environment.
For example:
In the parent POM
{code}
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.4</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
{code}
in the child POM
{code}
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
{code}
The child POM now declare dependency to junit:junit but there is no way to
identify the version, scope or classifier and therefore i suggest attach a
modified version of the POM to the artifact JAR file to provide the full
information without inheritance or variables, so its become:
{code}
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.4</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
{code}
Its very useful to make the artifact standalone and identifiable by any
external systems.
Thanks you.
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