How do I read a Maven dependency tree

Question

I have servlet-api version 2.5 as provided scope in pom.xml. Here is part of the dependency:tree output of my project. What does \"version managed from 2.3; scope managed fr

Answer 1

The message basically means that the version of servlet-api would have transitively been 2.3 (so basically in commons-logging's pom they define servlet-api with version 2.3), but that version 2.5 was specifically asked for in your project, so that is what was used.

Same goes for the scope. In commons-logging's pom it is defined with scope compile, but you have it defined with scope provided, so again that is the scope that was used.

Answer 2

It means that your project has overridden the version and scope from other dependencies.