The problem is resolved I started with a minimal child pom and ran mvn dependency:analyze - then added dependencies until I had all the relevant dependencies
I no longer get the compile failure I attempted to identify the differences between the 'good' and 'bad' poms, but without success Thanks to all who replied Geoff -- View this message in context: http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Adding-dependency-management-to-parent-pom-causes-errors-tp5784035p5784760.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org