How do I use a maven BOM (bill of materials) to manage my dependencies in SBT?

Question

I want to use an external BOM to manage dependency versions for my project in SBT.

For example, the AWS Java SDK publishes a bill-of-materials artifact to their maven repository: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.amazonaws/aws-java-sdk-bom/1.11.86

I can use it to manage versions of dependencies in the AWS SDK. In Maven I can do this by adding the BOM to my <dependencyManagement> section like so:

<dependencyManagement>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-bom</artifactId>
      <version>1.11.86</version>
      <type>pom</type>
      <scope>import</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Then when I want to use a module that's covered in the BOM I can omit the version and the BOM will resolve it for me:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
    <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-sns</artifactId>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Similarly in Gradle, I can use the BOM to manage dependencies for me using this plugin, like so:

apply plugin: "io.spring.dependency-management"

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-bom:1.11.86'
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-sns'
    compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-s3'
}

Is there a similar plugin for SBT?

Answer 1

I'm looking for the same and have searched in a lot of place.

Most interesting thing I found is it looks like there is Open Ticket on SBT Project:

https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/4531

Can't wait that it's resolved !