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Reputation: 8122

Maven: How to include a dependency with a specific build profile?

I have a project where I use Spring Boot 1.1.2.RELEASE which uses Spring 4.1.5, and Spring HATEOAS 0.10.0.RELEASE which uses Spring 4.0.9. This causes some dependency problems like the infamous java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.beans.factory.SmartInitializingSingleton.

I dug into the POM of spring-hateoas and found that there are different profiles defined, one of them being spring41 which depends on Spring 4.1.5. Is it possible to select this profile in my <dependency> section, or do I have to exclude the Spring dependencies?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 513

Answers (1)

Aaron Digulla
Aaron Digulla

Reputation: 328594

Automatically selecting a profile for a build isn't easy. You can enable it by default in your personal settings.xml but that breaks the build for everyone who doesn't have the same file.

You can't enable a profile in the POM of the project.

With Maven 3.3, you can add the profile to ${maven.projectBasedir}/.mvn/maven.config. Since this file is part of the project, it's easy to share. You can use the Maven Enforcer plugin to make sure everyone uses a Maven version with actually uses the file.

If you can't use 3.3, then your best bet is to exclude the dependencies. If you have a parent POM, then you can use a dependencyManagement element to do it for all POMs in the reactor build.

Upvotes: 2

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