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cbmeeks
cbmeeks

Reputation: 11420

How do I get Eclipse and Maven to download the JARs I need?

I'm new to Maven and Eclipse. We have been using Netbeans and installing jars manually in our projects.

I thought the purpose of Maven was to download the required jars based on your dependencies?

In a new project, I added the following under my dependencies node of my pom.xml file:

    <!-- Java dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>
        <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.annotation</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Spring dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.springframework.orm</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Spring Security dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.springframework.security.config</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.springframework.security.core</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.springframework.security.taglibs</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
        <artifactId>org.springframework.security.web</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <!-- Other dependencies -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.mysql.jdbc</groupId>
        <artifactId>com.springsource.com.mysql.jdbc</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
        <artifactId>com.springsource.org.apache.commons.dbcp</artifactId>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>

But all I get is:

Project build error: 'dependencies.dependency.version' for javax.annotation:com.springsource.javax.annotation:jar is missing.

....

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2498

Answers (5)

mawcsco
mawcsco

Reputation: 624

Dependency blocks almost always need a version number. If you search for your dependencies on http://search.maven.org/, you should be able to navigate to a page about the dependency with a complete dependency block.

For example, the page for Spring Security is:

http://search.maven.org/#artifactdetails|org.springframework.security|spring-security-aspects|3.1.0.RELEASE|jar

The dependency block for it looks like:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.security</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-security-aspects</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 7

Hari Reddy
Hari Reddy

Reputation: 3858

You need to provide more details for the other than just the groupId and artifactId to add a dependency to the pom.xml file.

Please look at this reference to understand how to add dependencies to the pom.xml file - http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Dependencies

Upvotes: 1

Shawn Bush
Shawn Bush

Reputation: 642

As the error message points out, you're missing the <version> child element for all of your <dependency> elements.

If you browse for your dependencies on http://mvnrepository.com, it should be easy to find an example <dependency> element that you can paste into your POM file, like this:

<dependency>
    <groupId>springframework</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
    <version>1.2.6</version>
</dependency>

Upvotes: 1

Sanath
Sanath

Reputation: 4886

as the error says the version attribute of the dependency is missing for the dependency entries in the pom.

notice how pom has been arranged in this example. http://www.mkyong.com/spring-security/spring-security-hello-world-example/

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
        <version>${spring.version}</version>
    </dependency>

can be hard coded or can be added as a property as well. hope this helps

Upvotes: 2

Jens Schauder
Jens Schauder

Reputation: 81907

You need to specify the version of your dependencies like so:

<dependency> 
     <groupId>javax.annotation</groupId>       
     <artifactId>com.springsource.javax.annotation</artifactId>  
     <version>1.0.0</version>     
</dependency>

Upvotes: 3

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