what is the BOM?

[asookazian]

BOM is ???

purpose ???

is it similar to the Project Object Model (POM) in Maven???

[pmuir]

RT(F)M ;-0

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

[asookazian]

It's not in the index of the Maven: The Definitive Guide book as bill of materials or BOM so it must not be that important.  thx anyways.

[pmuir]

Arbi Sookazian wrote on Apr 20, 2010 21:43:


It's not in the index of the Maven: The Definitive Guide book as bill of materials or BOM so it must not be that important.  thx anyways.

IMO it's one of the most important dependency management concepts in Maven, the ability to define dependency management info via composition, not inheritance.

But you are free to believe what you want.

[asookazian]

Perhaps it's a newer feature of Maven so that's why it's not in the book which is based on Mavn 2.0.9?

Anyways, I respect you and your team's opinions so I'll research it.

Maven 2 and m2eclipse is totally kicking my ass man (much like Seam/EE5, big learning curve).  Didn't have such a hard time with Ant but Maven is more interesting and powerful.  I really wish there was an alternative build system in the works.  Much like hg and git are popular DVCS alternatives to svn now...

[asookazian]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/633309/in-scm-what-is-a-bill-of-materials