Re: Reverse dependency:tree?

[Ben Caradoc-Davies <Be...@csiro.au>]

On 20/07/10 23:20, Andrew Close wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies
> <Be...@csiro.au>  wrote:
>> Is there a plugin or command-line tool that can list all artifacts in a
>> local repository (or even in a multimodule project) that depend, directly or
>> transitively, on a given artifact? This is the opposite of dependency:tree,
>> which only displays dependencies.
>>
>> Maven Dependency Browser is no longer maintained and is a GUI. IDE plugins
>> seem like overkill.
>>
>> The problem I am trying to solve is to automatically determine which higher
>> level artifacts need to have their dependencies updated when a lower level
>> artifact is updated. Extra credit for being as simple and easy-to-use as
>> dependency:tree.  :-)
>
> would the versions plugin do what you want or at least help out?  it
> will tell you that new versions of artifacts you depend on are
> available in your repository.
>
> http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/

Andrew, I have started using versions:display-dependency-updates and it 
just what I needed! Thanks very much.

Kind regards,

-- 
Ben Caradoc-Davies <Be...@csiro.au>
Software Engineering Team Leader
CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering
Australian Resources Research Centre

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