Preventing overriding dependency version in Maven child pom

Question

I have a dependencyManagement section in parent pom like

    
        org.apache.httpcomponents         


        

Answer 1

You could add a dependency:analyze-dep-mgt execution in your parent pom and configure it to fail on version mismatches:

  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.6</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>analyze</id>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>analyze-dep-mgt</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <failBuild>true</failBuild>
              <ignoreDirect>false</ignoreDirect>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>