What is the difference between maven dependencies org.apache.commons:commons-io and commons-io:commons-io?

Question

Maven repositories contain these two dependencies: org.apache.commons:commons-io:1.3.2 and commons-io:commons-io:1.3.2. What is the difference and which one I should be usin

Answer 1

From commons-io website. the latest release is 2.0.1. 1.3.2 is pretty old. Given this information, the repository in http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/commons-io/ holds the latest releases and is the right one to use.

This related mail thread makes interesting reading.