differences between dependencymanagement and dependencies of maven
- by hguser
Hi:
What is the differences between dependencymanagement and dependencies?
I have seen the docs at apache maven web site.However I got nothing.
It seems that a dependency defined under the DependencyManagement can be used in its child modules without sepcify the version.For example:
A parent project(Pro-par) define a dependency under the dependencyManagement:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
Then at the child of Pro-par, I can use the junit :
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
However I wonder if it is necessary to define the junit at the parent pom? Why not define it directly at the needed module?
