why maven auto import commons-lang

[mcheung63]

hi all
in my class, i have "import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;". In pom.xml, i didn't import commons-lang, but i can "mvn compile" successfully. Why?
thanks
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[Lew]

in my class, i have "import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;". In pom.xml, i didn't import commons-lang, but i can "mvn compile" successfully. Why?

Maven is usually pretty good about tracking transitive dependencies and fetching them. Some other POM probably called for it.

This works great until multiple POMs ask for different versions of the same library. Ouch!

 

[Fredrik Jonson]

Maven is usually pretty good about tracking transitive dependencies and
fetching them. Some other POM probably called for it.

If that is the case I recommend that you still declare it in your own pom
too, just to make it explicit for your future self and other developers that
work with the project.

This works great until multiple POMs ask for different versions of the
same library. Ouch!

Yes, you need to be mindful about which transitive dependencies your
declared dependencies pulls in. I make it a habit to regularily check my
dependencies with the command 'mvn dependency:tree'.

The few cases where version mismatch occurs it can normally be handled by
declaring exclusions on one of the dependencies. In my experience this
happens rarely and I cant remember the last time, if ever, where I was
unable to resolve it with exclusions.

 

[Nicole Rivers]

hi there! we have a related article about Maven. You may want to check it out, this might help http://www.ideyatech.com/2012/07/setting-up-maven/

Thanks!

 

[Jukka Lahtinen]

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[Joerg Meier]

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