Question about Maven Blog Post...

[clebert.suconic]

I was reading the maven blog post now:

http://hornetq.blogspot.com/2009/09/hornetq-simple-example-using-maven.html



(nice post BTW)

I don't know much about maven.. but I was wondering about this... I was wondering.. if it wouldn't be possible to specify a single group.. something like:

# <dependency>
# <groupId>org.hornetq</groupId>
# <artifactId>hornetq-group</artifactId>
# <version>2.0.0.BETA5</version>
# <scope>compile</scope>
# </dependency>

Something that would bring up all the other dependencies? So.. when we move to BETA6,... GA... when the dependencies move, the user would have a single place to change this.

[ataylor]

you can actuallly set properties in maven, so you could have asingle place to change it, so it would become:

# <dependency>
# <groupId>org.hornetq</groupId>
# <artifactId>hornetq-group</artifactId>
# <version>${hq.version}</version>
# <scope>compile</scope>
# </dependency>

[clebert.suconic]

I don't mean just the version itself.


Like... Beta5 is dependent on Netty XYA... Beta6 will be dependent on Netty XYB.


As an user i would think it's easier to specify some sort of meta-group.

[clebert.suconic]

I was just wondering...

Wouldn't be nice to make this maven post part of the doc, with a chapter an the example?

[ataylor]

yeah, I'll add a more generic chapter about maven.