In Maven you can force a specific version to be used by adding square brackets: <version>[1.0]</version> By doing so you'll make sure Maven doesn't override your version of choice. However, this will impact projects depending on your artifacts. Normally the version defined closest to the level you're building has preference, but forcing a specific version will change that behavior. Also, if two different versions are forced the build will fail.
/Anders On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:09, Bryan Loofbourrow < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm hoping for advice about the best way to accomplish something in > Maven. I am willing to write a plugin if that's the right answer. > > > > Here's the thing I want to accomplish: > > > > Given a Maven project that builds an ear/war, and which contains a > dependencyManagement section, generally inherited from its parent or a > more distant ancestor, fail the Maven build if any version chosen for > inclusion in the reactor (or the ear or war, if you want to look at it > that way) does not match the version declared in the > dependencyManagement section. > > > > The point being, of course, to catch those cases where Maven's version > choices override the ones I made in dependencyManagement, and fail fast. > > > > > So, is there a way to do it now? If not, what would be the best practice > for accomplishing it? Write a plugin that executes as part of the ear > build? Write a plugin that executes as part of some separate analysis > project, and which uses the ear artifact as a dependency or parameter? > > > > I will confess that there's part of me that thinks that this whole need > should not arise, that Maven should simply decline to add anything to > the reactor that matches something declared in dependencyManagement in > every way except for a mismatching version. That's a separate > discussion. If anyone knows whether 3.0 operates more like that, I'd be > interested to know it. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -- Bryan > > > > Bryan Loofbourrow > > Principal Software Engineer > > Amdocs Interactive > > o:+1.206.830.7724 | m: +1.707.849.8892 | > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > > This message and the information contained herein is proprietary and > confidential and subject to the Amdocs policy statement, > you may review at http://www.amdocs.com/email_disclaimer.asp
