I just saw on my pom files that there are two different group id's for Apache commons-collections:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
</dependency>
And this one:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons.collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
</dependency>
Are these two the same? and if they are the same, which one should is use by convention?
For commons-collections version 3, there is no groupId: org.apache.commons.collections, so prior to version 4 use:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
</dependency>
Since version 4:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.1</version>
</dependency>
Note that the artifact id has changed to commons-collections4.
Reference: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COLLECTIONS-382