[jboss-dev] leverage dependencyManagement from jbossas

[Ian Springer]

Thomas Diesler wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> in order to leverage the AS50 dependencyManagement, I define this parent
>
>           <parent>
>          <groupId>org.jboss.jbossas</groupId>
>          <artifactId>jboss-as-component-matrix</artifactId>
>          <version>5.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
>        </parent>
>
> http://fisheye.jboss.com/browse/JBossWS/container/jboss50/branches/jbossws-jboss501/pom.xml?r=6679 
>
>
> However, I would like to use the jbossws parent instead. Is there 
> another way to pull in the dependency management?
>
> cheers
> -thomas
>
Yes, but only if you use Maven 2.0.9.

"The 'import' scope is only used on a dependency of type pom in the 
<dependencyManagement> section. It indicates that the specified POM 
should be replaced with the dependencies in that POM's 
<dependencyManagement> section. Since they are replaced, dependencies 
with a scope of import do not actually participate in limiting the 
transitivity of a dependency. Please note that the use of this scope 
will break backwards compatibility with older Maven versions. If you use 
this, you should use the maven-enforcer-plugin to require a minimum 
maven version of 2.0.9."

(for more details, see 
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html#Importing_Dependencies)