How can I force Gradle to set the same version for two dependencies?

Question

I use the following two dependencies:

compile \'com.google.guava:guava:14.0.1\'
compile \'com.google.guava:guava-gwt:14.0.1\'

Both must be

Answer 1

Alternatively you can use dependencySets (or mavenBom when BOM POM is available) support in spring-dependency-management Gradle plugin. Note that this plugin is also automatically applied with spring-boot Gradle plugin. For more details see here.

plugins {
  id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.1.RELEASE'
}

dependencyManagement {
  dependencies {
    dependencySet(group: 'com.google.guava', version: '14.0.1') {
      entry 'guava'
      entry 'guava-gwt'
    }
  }
}

dependencies {
  compile 'com.google.guava:guava'
  compile 'com.google.guava:guava-gwt'
}