For 2, this can be achieved by adding the group of dependencies to a project
of type pom and then including this group project as a dependency whenever
you need to include the whole group of dependencies.  You mark the
dependency as of type pom and it just pulls in all the transitive
dependencies.

2009/8/18 Tako Schotanus <[email protected]>

> Yes, that is an option but one that will only work if ALL subprojects
> need those dependencies, something that isn't the case in our
> situation. And we don't want to subdivide our hierarchy even more just
> to to be able to define dependencies. Ah well, that's just the way it
> is then :)
>
> -Tako
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:26, Anders Hammar<[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2) I believe inclusion like this is planned for Maven 3.0, but for M2 you
> > have to settle with using a parent where you define common dependencies.
> >
> > /Anders
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:43, Tako Schotanus <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >> I've got 2 questions that I haven't been able to find an answer to:
> >>
> >> 1. For maven projects of type WAR is there a way to still have it
> include
> >> the contents of WEB-INF/lib in the class path during
> compilation/packaging?
> >> For a project we're doing we have a large list of 3rd party JARs that we
> >> need to include and I don't want to set up a central repository and add
> >> them
> >> there or have every developer add them to their local repository.
> >>
> >> 2. If you have several projects which all share a certain largish set of
> >> dependencies, is it possible to define those dependencies somewhere and
> >> "include" them?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>  -Tako
> >>
> >
>
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