yea you're right. I totally forgot about <dependencyManagement>. Thanks :)
_Mang Lau "Wayne Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/2006 12:41 PM Please respond to "Maven Users List" <[email protected]> To "Maven Users List" <[email protected]> cc Subject Re: Shared projects and Maven best practice > release a version of the Utility project. As a result of this release, we > would have to manually update all the POMs dependent on the Utility > project with the specific version number being released. Then, we would > have to manually update all the POMs from the other application that needs > to depend on the new snapshot number since it is now incremented. This Can you not utilize <dependencyManagement> and then change the Utility version in one parent POM for each project, rather than in "every pom file" in the project? This doesn't seem unreasonable to me... Wayne
