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rainydaymatt
rainydaymatt

Reputation: 630

Declaring multiple artifactId under one groupId in a pom.xml

I'm declaring quite a few dependencies within one package in a Maven pom.xml, and the document is getting very long and difficult to maintain as is, even without a separate dependency block for each referenced artifact. Instead of doing this:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.test.foo</groupId>
        <artifactId>bar1</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.test.foo</groupId>
        <artifactId>bar2</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.test.foo</groupId>
        <artifactId>bar3</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Is it possible (and I'd be willing to work with a plugin, if necessary) to do something like this:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.test.foo</groupId>
        <artifactId>bar1</artifactId>
        <artifactId>bar2</artifactId>
        <artifactId>bar3</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>war</type>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3711

Answers (1)

Ale Sequeira
Ale Sequeira

Reputation: 2039

No. But if you own those dependencies (I assume from your code that you do) you can have a module aggregating all those dependencies, then you can depend on that module. Or if working in a multi module project you can create a parent pom to define the dependencies from your project so you don't repeat it everywhere.

Upvotes: 7

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