Re: what is dependencyManagement ?

2007-12-22 Thread akkachotu
Thank you Dennis Lundberg, Ian Springer, nicolas de loof , Andrew Robinson for timely replies. Now the dependencyManagment concept of Maven is clear to me. On Dec 22, 2007 12:27 AM, Ian Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dependencyManagement is basically a way to standardize versions for

types of dependency scope

2007-12-22 Thread akkachotu
In pom.xml, under dependency element we have scope element which can have values like compile, provided, runtime, test, system. I have below questions: 1. Can I assume compile means it is available in all types of classpaths like compile-time, provided, runtime, test ? Is compile a superset of

what is dependencyManagement ?

2007-12-21 Thread akkachotu
Say I have parent pom called A and child pom called B. I specified module element for B inside A and also specified parent element for A inside B. Now I dont understand I would have to declare dependencyManagement element in A. Say if I have B, C, D as child modules and B, C, D all 3 depend on