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Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds

From	Michal Kleczek <kleku75@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds
Date	2011-02-10 14:17 +0000
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On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:09:23 -0500, Lew wrote:

> Lew wrote:
> 
> On a recent project with Maven builds, we had a parent build ("foomain")
> and several subsidiary modules ("foofrontend", "foologic",
> "foopersistence", ...).
>   Historically different versions of the same frameworks were specified
>   for
> the different modules.  Yet when you pulled the dependencies into the
> "foomain" pom.xml in common the build broke.  Turns out some of the
> dependencies transitively depend on the same libraries, but different
> versions also, some of which are transitive dependencies for other
> stuff, also different versions.
> 

So it wasn't really Maven problem but dependency management problem.
From my experience Maven just makes dependency management issues explicit 
and visible. I would argue it is a good thing.

-- 
Michal

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Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-02-08 17:28 -0800
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Michal Kleczek <kleku75@gmail.com> - 2011-02-10 14:17 +0000
    Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-10 19:08 -0500
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Joshua Maurice <joshuamaurice@gmail.com> - 2011-02-09 14:59 -0800
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-09 08:02 -0500
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Markus Gessner <nospam@nospam.com> - 2011-02-09 08:06 +0100
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-09 23:56 +0000
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-02-08 22:14 -0500
  Re: Dependency resolution in Java builds Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-02-09 23:28 +0000

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