How to inherit dependency from a parent pom to a child pom

Question

I am new in using maven and jenkins. I am trying to inherit the dependencies from parent pom to child pom it shows the following errors:

[ERROR] COMPILATION          


        

Answer 1

Below is the example of how you should use the parent and child poms.

The parent pom is as follows:

.....
4.0.0
group1
group1-artifact
1.0.1
pom


     child1
     // add more childs here



    
        
            org.slf4j
            slf4j-simple
            1.7.21
        
        
            org.abc
            xyz
            1.0.0
        
    

.......

If you specify a dependency in the dependencyManagement tag, it simply means that you are making this jar available for the child pom. It would NOT actually download the jar at this point. The child pom will have to provide the groupId and the artifactId explicitly to download and use the jar to compile its classes. Note: you don't have to include the version of the dependency in the child poms.

The child pom will be as follows:

.....
4.0.0

            // this is how you will inherit from parent pom
    group1
    group1-artifact
    1.0.1


child1

    
        
            org.slf4j
            slf4j-simple
            runtime
            // no version needed as it would inherit from the parent pom
        
        
            org.abc
            xyz
            // no version needed as it would inherit from the parent pom
        
    

.......

It is a good practice to put dependencies common to all the childs in the dependencyManagement tag of the parent pom. This way you can manage the versions of these dependencies from one single place.