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Version declaration in parent POM

Which is the suitable tag to declare version of dependencies used in child POM, i.e. Properties tag or DependencyManagement tag? What are their respective pros n con's? Is there any better way?

Solution

  • declare them as one of the property

    <properties>
   <commons.dbcp.version>somenumber</commons.dbcp.version>
</properties>