&quot;Kevin.Conner(a)jboss.com&quot; wrote : | I don't believe there is any way to force the build to terminate if you have a conflict. The | resolution mechanism gives precedence to the version which is configured closest to the | pom IIRC, unless it is specified in the dependencyManagement section. | What I want to be able to say is in "build" 'the common version for jboss-test is 1.4-SNAPSHOT" in one of the projects 'I use jboss-test" so it is a dependency of my project. I don't want all the dependencies from "build" being dragged through into my project. Is that how it works? If so, then we can add a big warning in each pom. | <!-- SPECIFY THE VERSION YOU WANT TO USE IN ../build/pom.xml NOT HERE --> | View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063012#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...