Recently, I came accross the following problem :
As I set up dependency management for my project, I had child-pom using plugin with dependencies, that I want to be synchronized with dependencies declared in my dependency management.
In a root pom, I declared in my dependency management:
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
...
<dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
And in the child pom, I have a plugin which needs gwt-user :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>2.4.0</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
</plugin>
However, if I remove the dependency version used in gwt-maven-plugin, the compilation fails.
Is there another way to achieve it ?
PS: There is a related post Choosing dependency version in maven and maven plugin which does not answer my question
According to the following links, it seems not to be possible :
Here is a workaround I found, and I wanted to share with everyone, in case other people had the same problem :
In my root pom, I have defined a property, a dependency management and a plugin management :
<properties>
<gwtVersion>2.4.0</gwtVersion>
<gwtMavenPluginVersion>2.4.0</gwtMavenPluginVersion>
</properties>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
...
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
</dependency>
...
<dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${gwtMavenPluginVersion}</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
</dependency>
...
</dependencies>
...
</plugins>
...
</pluginManagement>
</build>
And in my child pom, using the relationship provided by plugin management (see Maven2 - problem with pluginManagement and parent-child relationship), I just declare the plugin dependency :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
Now if I change the version in the properties, it is automatically impacting all direct dependencies and plugin dependencies.
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