Maven dependency in getting started guide

[aepedraza]

Hi, I'm just learning about Arquillian an this is my first post. I was just watching the getting started guide and has this dependency:

<dependencyManagement>
     <dependencies>
          <dependency>
               <groupId>org.jboss.arquillian</groupId>
               <artifactId>arquillian-bom</artifactId>
               <version>#{site.components['arquillian-core'].latest_version}</version>
               <scope>import</scope>
               <type>pom</type>
          </dependency>
    </dependencies>

</dependencyManagement>

My questions are: what is exactly a bom package? what is the version el expression?

Thanks in advance for your answers.

[mjobanek]

Hi,

BOM is a abbreviation of Bill Of Materials. BOM basically defines the versions of all the artifacts that should be used in the project - BOM itself doesn't fetch any dependency, it only manages versions of artifacts defined in the dependency part. If you set a BOM in your pom.xml file, then you don't need to specify versions of artifacts that are managed by the BOM.

More information about the dependency management can be found here: Maven – Introduction to the Dependency Mechanism

As for the el expression - it seems that this page hasn't been generated correctly (we will try to regenerate it ASAP) - there should be the last version of arquillian-core which is 1.1.11.Final. Thanks for letting us know