[jira] Reopened: (MNG-3146) POM properties overriden by POM of dependend artifact

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3146?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brett Porter reopened MNG-3146:
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> POM properties overriden by POM of dependend artifact
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>
>                 Key: MNG-3146
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3146
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.6
>            Reporter: Jörg Hohwiller
>
> In my project I use properties (in pom.xml: properties tag, profiles, filters) to avoid redundancies (e.g. versions of artifacts used in various modules) or to make decisions that depended on the environment (e.g. platform specific artifacts). This worked fine for me and I was happy until now, because I found a bug in maven:
> If an artifact is referenced as dependency that defines the same property, it overwrites the property. This behavior is IMHO inacceptable.
> To avoid missunderstandings I try to say the same again with other words as example:
> I have my root pom.xml that says:
>   <properties>
>     <org.apache.commons.dbcp.version>1.2.1</org.apache.commons.dbcp.version>
>   </properties>
> Now one of my modules that inherits from this pom says:
>   <dependency>
>       <groupId>commons-dbcp</groupId>
>       <artifactId>commons-dbcp</artifactId>
>       <version>${org.apache.commons.dbcp.version}</version>
>   </dependency>
> So far it works fine. But If I also have a dependency on "foo" in the same module
> and the POM of foo says
>   <properties>
>     <org.apache.commons.dbcp.version>1.1</org.apache.commons.dbcp.version>
>   </properties>
> Then my project ends up with commons-dbcp version 1.1.
> I can even add an exclusions tag to the foo dependency that excludes commons-dbcp without help
> because I do not inherit the dependency on commons-dbcp from foo but foo overrides my property.
> I hope my information is good enough to understand my problem.
> I would expect that the pom of a dependency does NOT influence the environment of my pom at all!

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