&quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : 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. The dependencyManagement section specifies the version and scope of the dependency. You would still specify the dependency in the pom but would not require the version nor the scope. &quot;adrian(a)jboss.org&quot; wrote : I don't want all the dependencies from "build" being dragged through into my project. They won't be, this is the dependency metadata. &quot;adrian(a)jboss.org wrote : 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 --> | | Sounds like a good idea to me :) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4063019#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...