Java 9 Programming By Example

Maven dependency management

Dependencies are also important in the POM file. The previous project did not have any dependency, but this time we will use JUnit. Dependencies are defined in pom.xml using the dependencies tag. For example, the bubble sort module contains the following piece of code:

<dependencies>     <dependency>         <groupId>packt.java9.by.example</groupId>         <artifactId>SortInterface</artifactId>     </dependency>     <dependency>         <groupId>junit</groupId>         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>     </dependency> </dependencies>

The actual pom.xml in the code set you can download will contain more code than this. In print, we often present a version or only a fraction that helps the understanding of the topic that we are discussing at that point. ...