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Xavier Hanin commented on IVY-454:
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If this is one of the most asked questions it may even deserve an entry in the
FAQ :-)
> Document the notion of virtual module
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>
> Key: IVY-454
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IVY-454
> Project: Ivy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Documentation
> Reporter: Gilles Scokart
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> Here is a copy for the user list :
> {quote}
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to migrate to ivy from maven and have one question. Is it
> > possible to create some common dependencies for multimodule project?
> > Something like parent and child pom.xml in maven2. For example, I'm
> > using Spring in almost all modules but don't want to declare it in
> > every module (as in case of version change I will have to update all
> > ivy.xml files). Is it possible to do with ivy?
> Ivy do not support parent/child like maven, but you can do something very
> similar by using virtual module. A virtual module is a module which publishes
> no artifact at all (put an empty publication section in its ivy file, since
> no publication element at all is equivalent to publishing one jar artifact).
> Then when you declare a dependency on it, you will transitively get all its
> dependencies, and only its dependencies since it doesn't publish any artifact.
> The advantage is that you can obviously declare multiple dependencies like
> that, so you are not limited to single level inheritance of maven
> parent/child mechanism.
> {quote}
> This is I think the most asked questions that we have in the list. We should
> add a page in the documentation explaining this.
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