Automatic Dependency Management with Maven

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Summary

Example to configure Automatic Dependency Management with Maven

Solution

  1. Plan A master or main plan have the following pom.xml:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.company.test</groupId> <artifactId>test-producer</artifactId> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </project>

    The version need to be SNAPSHOT

  2. Plan B master or main plan have the following pom.xml:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.atlassian.test</groupId> <artifactId>test-consumer</artifactId> <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.company.test</groupId> <artifactId>test-producer</artifactId> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>

    The version need to be SNAPSHOT

  3. Add Maven Dependency Processor task to both plans

  4. Enable the option Automatic Dependency Management at Plan Configuration > Dependencies in both plans

  5. Run builds in both master or main plans

Updated on April 2, 2025

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