Differences between dependencyManagement and dependencies in Maven

Question

What is the difference between dependencyManagement and dependencies? I have seen the docs at Apache Maven web site. It seems that a dependency def

Answer 1

There are a few answers outlining differences between and tags with maven.

However, few points elaborated below in a concise way:

1. allows to consolidate all dependencies (used at child pom level) used across different modules -- clarity, central dependency version management
2. allows to easily upgrade/downgrade dependencies based on need, in other scenario this needs to be exercised at every child pom level -- consistency
3. dependencies provided in tag is always imported, while dependencies provided at in parent pom will be imported only if child pom has respective entry in its tag.