How to inherit dependency from a parent pom to a child pom

Question

I am new in using maven and jenkins. I am trying to inherit the dependencies from parent pom to child pom it shows the following errors:

[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------- [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/XMLConverters.java:[10,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/XMLConverters.java:[11,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/XMLConverters.java:[15,38] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class AbstractRequestMessageData_Type   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.XMLConverters [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/XMLConverters.java:[26,23] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class AbstractResponseMessageData_Type   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.XMLConverters [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/UsTermRateItemComparator.java:[5,42] package com.rpmtec.current.UsTermRate_Type does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/UsTermRateItemComparator.java:[7,61] cannot find symbol   symbol: class UsTermRateItems [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/UsTermRateItemComparator.java:[9,28] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class UsTermRateItems   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.UsTermRateItemComparator [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/UsTermRateItemComparator.java:[9,48] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class UsTermRateItems   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.UsTermRateItemComparator [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[9,40] package com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[10,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[11,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[12,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[13,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[14,42] package com.rpmtec.current.UsTermRate_Type does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[19,2] cannot find symbol   symbol: class JsonIgnoreProperties [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[69,22] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class ORCA_GETTERMHOLDINGRS_Type   location: class com.td.inv.model.COIRQ [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[69,66] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class RPM_GETPLANACCOUNTOVERVIEWRS_Type   location: class com.td.inv.model.COIRQ [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/model/COIRQ.java:[70,25] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class ORCA_GETTERMINSTRUCTIONRS_Type   location: class com.td.inv.model.COIRQ [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[5,26] package javax.ws.rs.client does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[6,26] package javax.ws.rs.client does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[7,26] package javax.ws.rs.client does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[8,26] package javax.ws.rs.client does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[9,24] package javax.ws.rs.core does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[15,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[16,26] package com.rpmtec.current does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[23,57] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class AbstractRequestMessageData_Type   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.RPMInvoker [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/util/RPMInvoker.java:[24,41] cannot find symbol   symbol:   class AbstractResponseMessageData_Type   location: class com.td.inv.wss.util.RPMInvoker [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/application/InvestmentAPI.java:[4,19] package javax.ws.rs does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/application/InvestmentAPI.java:[5,24] package javax.ws.rs.core does not exist [ERROR] /D:/jenkins/workspace/CBAW/testP/WSW_Investment/src/main/java/com/td/inv/wss/application/InvestmentAPI.java:[9,36] cannot find symbol   symbol: class Application 

Here is my parent POM:

..... <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>group1</groupId> <artifactId>group1-artifact</artifactId> <version>1.0.1</version> <packaging>pom</packaging>  <modules>      <module>child1</module> </modules> ....... 

Here is my child POM:

..... <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent>     <groupId>group1</groupId>     <artifactId>group1-artifact</artifactId>     <version>1.0.1</version>     <relativePath>(full url.....)/jenkins-parent-pom//pom.xml</relativePath> </parent> <groupId>group1</groupId> <artifactId>child1</artifactId> <version>0.0.1</version> <packaging>war</packaging> ...... 

Here is how I tried to inherit dependency in child POM from parent POM:

<dependencyManagement>     <dependencies>     <dependency>       <groupId>group1</groupId>       <artifactId>group1-artifact</artifactId>       <version>1.0.1</version>       <type>pom</type>       <scope>import</scope>     </dependency>   </dependencies> </dependencyManagement> 

If I put those same dependencies in the child POM, it works perfectly. I do clean install for installing and deploy for deploying in nexus by using jenkins. I am using maven-3.3.9. In jenkins, I have read the parent and child poms in two different maven projects from git. I want to inherit all the dependencies and plugins from parent POM. Is it possible?

Answer 1

You should declare dependencies you want to inherit under a <dependencies> section to achieve this. <dependencyManagement> is used for definitions that must be referenced later, whenever needed, within the <dependencies> of a particular child to become effective.

UPDATE: Be careful when declaring dependencies that every child pom will inherit. Very quickly you can end up having dependencies you don't really need just because they are declared in the parent. As mentioned by other commenters, <dependencyManagement> may be a better choice, although it isn't what you wanted originally.