Could you please state where in the Def Guide you read about pom dependencies? Is it possible that you're talking about the import scope and referencing a pom as also described in this blog post: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/10/maven-tips-and-tricks-grouping-dependencies/
/Anders On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 19:01, Ron Wheeler <[email protected]>wrote: > We are developing a portal project (in production for 2 years now) > that has dozens of webapps that share a lot of the same jar files. > We have started out on the road to chaos with each project having its own > POM file that is completely independent of its friends. > Having not quite reach the State of Chaos, we are starting to look more > closely at how Maven can help us. > > By reading the Definitive Guide, I found that there is the potential of a > "parent POM" and POM dependencies. > I also read the section about grouping libraries together into logical > groups described by a POM file that can be shared. > This looks great. > I looked though the jars that we need and share; looked at the > dependencies for these jars and started to develop a strategy to just get 1 > copy of 1 version of the basic set of jars into the Tomcat shared or common > directories. > > This means in my case that I have a "Jetspeed" POM, a JSF POM, a "Spring, > Hibernate, MySQL, Tomcat" POM and a utilities (mostly commons-xxx) POM. > In each of these POM files, I have excluded shared sub-dependencies and > marked all of the jars as "provided". > > In each project POM, I refer to the shared POMs as dependencies. > > The problem is that the jars listed in the shared POMs are not visible > during the build unless I mark them as "compile" scope in their family POMs > even though they will be provided. > I gather that this will cause them to be included in the war being > constructed and I will still get dozens of copies of the same jars in the > various webapp war files instead of just one copy of the shared jars and > only webapp-specific jars in each webapp's war file. > > > Am I doing something wrong or is this just the way it is supposed to work? > > Is there a "right" way to get what I want. 1 copy of shared jars in > Tomcat's shared folder and small war files only containing the jars not in > shared. > > Thanks > > Ron > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
