I am looking for a way to centrally manage and administer a single project dependency
that consists of multiple artifacts.
The problem is that in custom applications the dependency set quickly grows out of
control when multiple projects are created. For instance, when you want to add a
struts 1.1 dependency to your project.xml, you are looking at at least 16 dependency
entries, 10 jars and 6 TLD. Sample shown at the bottom of the email.
Verifying that these dependencies are all used correctly in all projects is very
painful indeed and upgrading all struts 1.1 projects to release 1.2 of struts requires
expensive manual reconfiguration.
One solution might be to realize this using a custom plugin, but this obfuscates the
explicit dependency declarations as found in the project file. Another solution might
be that the project declares a dependency on a POM causing maven to recursively
include the stated dependencies into the project. for example:
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>pom</type>
</dependency>
Does anybody have an elegant solution to this problem?
Cheers,
Mark
<!-- dependencies for struts, containing 16 entries
Example working with a custom maven struts repository entry.
-->
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-digester</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-lang</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-validator</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta-oro</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-legacy</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>jar</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-bean</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-html</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-logic</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-nested</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-template</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>struts</groupId>
<artifactId>struts-tiles</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<type>tld</type>
<properties
<war.bundle>true</war.bundle>
</properties>
</dependency>
