I have been using Maven for decades.
I have a question about import scope.
My mental model of this feature has always been the following:
Suppose my project has:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<!-- coordinates -->
<type>*pom*</type>
<scope>*import*</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
My understanding is that the imported pom's <dependencyManagement> element
is effectively "copied over" this dependency "by value" and then the
resulting pom is interpreted afterward.
Now consider an imported pom that defines a <properties> element. (Ideally
it shouldn't but consider one just the same.)
I am seeing a situation that I don't understand. I am importing a pom as
above, and its property definition is somehow affecting my importing pom.
That is, property references in my pom ${likeThis} are being affected by
the imported pom's value for the likeThis property.
I didn't think that anything other than the <dependencyManagement> element
was relevant during an import.
Obviously my mental model of how importing works is broken. What am I
missing? What other parts of the imported pom are there that can affect my
pom? I didn't find any information on this in the Maven documentation.
Thanks,
Best,
Laird
