Apache Maven Cookbook

Chapter 5. Dependency Management

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Choosing the scope of dependency
• Getting a report of dependencies
• Getting into dependency and avoiding dependency hell
• Downloading dependencies into a folder
• Understanding SNAPSHOT dependencies
• Handling dependency download errors
• Detecting unused/undeclared dependencies
• Manually installing dependencies that are not available in a repository
• Dependency management using Eclipse
• Dependency management using NetBeans
• Dependency management using IntelliJ IDEA

Introduction

One of the powerful features of Maven is managing the dependencies required by the project. It is rare for a project to be developed without using other dependencies. The typical issues in using dependencies ...