Is it correct for dependencies to appear twice in the base pom.xml? E.g. mysql-connector-java
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: 26 July 2013 11:10 PM > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Subject: [DISCUSS] maven dependencies... > > Everyone, > > After looking around in the maven documentation, I realized the way we are > specifying dependencies is not quite right for a large project such as ours. > > Currently, almost every project declare their own dependencies and version > number of the dependent jar. For those of us who are conscious of the > version number properties declared in the cloudstack pom file, we follow > that example but in many places, the version numbers are actually hard > coded, probably because the writer is not aware of this. > > Maven actually has a way to do this. In the master pom file, we can declare > in the <dependencyManagment> tags all of the third party dependencies we > need and their version numbers. And then each individual module can > declare their dependency without version number, which defaults to the > version declared by CloudStack's master pom. If a version number is > declared in the module's pom, it overrides the master's version number but > there's a warning about this override. > > Sounds good? If so I'll do a quick change to move it over. > > --Alex
