Hi all, My projects are organized in a standard way with a top level pom that lists out the general dependencies and versions to be used for all the child projects that would inherit from it. However, i am facing a situation where i need a different version of a particular dependency in a particular child project. To be particular, all my projects depend on testng version 5.1 and one particular child project needs a dependency on version 5.7. When i tried adding this dependency explicitly to the child pom, it fails with a missing dependency error for "
1) org.testng:testng:jar:5.7 ". However, the maven repository has testng version 5.7 jars available in it and it is able to download it when i change the version directly in the parent pom. Can somebody let me know the reason for such a thing happening? Parent pom: <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.testng</groupId> <artifactId>testng</artifactId> <version>5.1</version> <classifier>jdk15</classifier> </dependency> </dependencies> Child pom: <dependency> <groupId>org.testng</groupId> <artifactId>testng</artifactId> <version>5.7</version> <classifier>jdk15</classifier> </dependency> Error while building the child pom: INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. Missing: ---------- 1) org.testng:testng:jar:5.7 Try downloading the file manually from: http://testng.org Then, install it using the command: mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=org.testng -DartifactId=testng -Dversion=5.7 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file Alternatively, if you host your own repository you can deploy the file there: mvn deploy:deploy-file -DgroupId=org.testng -DartifactId=testng -Dversion=5.7 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=/path/to/file -Durl=[url] -DrepositoryId=[id] Thanks, Ravi
