The spring-boot-starter-parent dependency inherits from spring-boot-dependencies, which is defined at the top of the POM. The following code snippet shows an extract from spring-boot-starter-parent:
<parent> <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId> <artifactId>spring-boot-dependencies</artifactId> <version>2.0.0.M1</version> <relativePath>../../spring-boot-dependencies</relativePath> </parent>
The spring-boot-dependencies provides default dependency management for all the dependencies that Spring Boot uses. The following code shows the different versions of various dependencies that are configured in spring-boot-dependencies:
<activemq.version>5.13.4</activemq.version><aspectj.version>1.8.9</aspectj.version> ...
