Does Maven provide a mechanism for documenting/specifying compatible artifacts across groups in a repository?Yes and no. That's one of the reasons why POM exists. All dependencies of given artifact are listed there.
For example, the struts distribution bundles a number of jars from jakarta commons. This implies that the struts jar/runtime depends on particular versions of the commons jars, but if I am putting struts into my local repository for the first time I have to split up this grouping into it's constituents, thus losing the implicit documentation of strut's dependencies. Now when I come back in a year's time to create a new project which uses struts, I have to figure out the compatible jars from scratch. Is there anything in Maven to help me with this problem?
The problem is that still we don't have POMs in repositories. We hope this will change soon.
Michal
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