Java Projects - Second Edition

Maven dependency management

Dependencies also play an important role in the POM file. The previous project did not have any dependencies. This time we will use JUnit, so we depend on JUnit. Dependencies are defined in the pom.xml file using the dependencies tag. For example, the bubble sort module contains the following piece of code:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>packt.java189fundamentals</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 with understanding the topic that ...