I need help understanding import scope in Maven2. I am using the import mechanism to control third party dependences and transitive dependencies from a centralized pom as explained here -> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html. My problem is that the import of the pom that controls the dependent versions seems to have only runtime scope, and can not find the dependencies at compile time. Is there a fix to this. I can not give the dependency a compile scope because it already has import scope. How can I pull in dependencies from an import scope at compile time?
Please help. Thanks in advance.
