Welcome back to the second part of our tutorial-series on Maven 2. This part will focus on the pom.xml and the Maven 2 dependency management, Maven properties and dependency scopes. To get started let's first set up a project similar to the project we used in the first part of this tutorial. Set up the project as described in the article Maven 2 (Part 1): Setting up a simple Apache Maven 2 Project and reopen the pom.xml.
Dependencies
Some dependencies often are needed to write your applications. Commonly we (developers, developers, developers,...) are using some open source libraries and frameworks (e.g. the spring application framework or apache commons-logging,...). Sometimes own libraries should be referenced by a java project. To solve this problem Maven delivers a very good dependency mechanism that manages the dependencies of your project transitivly.
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