place the groupId/artifactId/version in the dependencies in
dependencyManagement Section of the parent pom
<project>
...
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>group-a</groupId>
<artifactId>artifact-a</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html
hth
Martin
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> Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:44:45 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: users@maven.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Is Maven / JUnit 4.x broken (annotations)
>
>
> I looked at my effective pom. I have a dependency there on JUnit 4.5.
> The only reference to surefire was maven-surefire-reports-plugin in the
> reporting section.
>
> how do I know that surefire is using my dependency of JUnit 4.5? Is maven
> bundled with another version of JUnit and using an earlier version that I'm
> not aware of?
>
> How do I force the surefire plugin to use JUnit 4.5?
>
> thanks
>
> L
>
>
>
> John Stoneham wrote:
> >
> >>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:16 AM, CheapLisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> I have JUnit 4.5 as a dependency in my maven pom
> >>>> and I have imported annotations into my test case but
> >>>> it is not recognizing the @Test and @Ignore annotations.
> >>>>
> >>>> I still have to preface the method name with "test"
> >>>> and the @Ignore tests get executed.
> >>>>
> >>>> Is something broken? What do I need to do to get this
> >>>> to work like expected and to take advantage of JUnit 4.x
> >>>> which has over a year of release now.
> >
> > Hm. Last time this happened to me it was because I was trying to
> > repackage JUnit with a bunch of other things, and it turned out
> > surefire was inspecting my POM to look for a junit:junit dependency,
> > then pulling the version off that to determine whether to look for
> > JUnit 4 tests.
> >
> > Sounds to me like surefire thinks your JUnit dependency is version 3.
> > We've got JUnit 4.4 configured here and it runs both 3- and 4-style
> > tests properly.
> >
> > Is it possible to post the output of mvn help:effective-pom here?
> >
> > - John
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