Maven update dependencies in POM

Question

Are there any preexisting Maven plugins or commands to update the dependencies in the POM? Example: (if this was in my POM)

Answer 1

Personally, I think there should be an additional parameter in maven that would allow you to add to the pom.xml.

See post at http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/Is-there-any-maven-plugin-to-add-dependency-to-existing-pom-xml-td2839092.html#a5772853

Here, you can add the following to your pom.xml file:

  ...
  
    ...
    
      ...
      
        org.codehaus.mojo
        versions-maven-plugin
        2.1
      
      ...
    
    ...
  
  ...

...

Then backup your pom.xml file via version set command:

mvn versions:set -DnewVersion=9.9.9

Run latest versions:

mvn versions:use-latest-versions

and diff the pom.xml files, pom.xml and pom.xml.versionsBackup