Maven dependency management for plugin dependencies

Question

Recently, I came accross the following problem :

As I set up dependency management for my project, I had child-pom using plugin with dependencies, that I want to be

Answer 1

According to the following links, it seems not to be possible :

• http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/dependency-management-within-plugin-dependencies-td78367.html
• https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-2496

Here is a workaround I found, and I wanted to share with everyone, in case other people had the same problem :

In my root pom, I have defined a property, a dependency management and a plugin management :

    2.4.0
    2.4.0



   
    ...
    
        com.google.gwt
        gwt-user
        ${gwtVersion}
    
    ...
   


    
  
        
            
            org.codehaus.mojo
            gwt-maven-plugin
            ${gwtMavenPluginVersion}
            
                
                    com.google.gwt
                    gwt-user
                    ${gwtVersion}
                
                ...
            
            ...
        
  ...
  

And in my child pom, using the relationship provided by plugin management (see Maven2 - problem with pluginManagement and parent-child relationship), I just declare the plugin dependency :

   org.codehaus.mojo
   gwt-maven-plugin

Now if I change the version in the properties, it is automatically impacting all direct dependencies and plugin dependencies.