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

The two dependencies look the same. I would prefer to use commons-io:commons-io, cause the pom of org.apache.commons:commons-io:1.3.2 is wrong (wrong groupId!)

The artifacts located at this position: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/ are newer in date than the others.