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Maven: How can I get a profile to inherit the dependencyManagement tag from a parent pom?

I run wsgen in its own profile because I don't want it to run every time I build the product. But I'm getting an error about a missing version when I run it:

$ mvn package -P wsgen [INFO] Scanning for projects... [ERROR] The build could not read 1 project -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] The project project-ejb:2.3.15-SNAPSHOT (C:\Projects\MyProject\pom.xml) has 1 error [ERROR]
'build.plugins.plugin[org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons:jaxws-maven-plugin].dependencies.dependency.version' for org.glassfish:javax.javaee:jar is missing. @ line 167, column 41 [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/ProjectBuildingException

This is a snippet of the child pom (the pom with the profile):

<packaging>ejb</packaging>
<parent>
    <artifactId>MyProject</artifactId>
    <groupId>project</groupId>
    <version>2.3.15-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>
<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>wsgen</id>
            <build>
                <plugins>
                    <plugin>
                        <groupId>org.jvnet.jax-ws-commons</groupId>
                        <artifactId>jaxws-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                        <version>2.1</version>
                        <executions>
...
                </executions>
                <dependencies>
                    <dependency>
                        <groupId>org.glassfish</groupId>
                        <artifactId>javax.javaee</artifactId>
                    </dependency>
                </dependencies>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</profile>

But, in the parent pom I'm defining this dependency with its version under the dependencyManagement tag.

I think what's happening is the profile doesn't inherit the parent's dependencyManagement tag so it thinks that the dependency is missing a version number. Is there a way to make the profile inherit this from the parent?

Solution

  • dependencyManagement applies for dependencies in the pom and child poms. It does not apply to dependencies in plugins (at least, that's what i noticed in several plugins, like maven-dependency-plugin).

    A possible solution is defining a property (javax.javaee.version) in your parent pom and using it in your dependencyManagement and in your jaxws-maven-plugin plugin.