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Maven Dependency Management

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Enterprise-level projects typically depend on a variety of open source libraries. Consider the scenario where you want to use Log4J for your application logging. To accomplish this, you would go to the Log4J download page, download the JAR file, and put it in your project’s lib folder or add it to the project’s class path. As you may know already, there are a couple of problems with this approach:

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© 2014 Balaji Varanasi

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Varanasi, B., Belida, S. (2014). Maven Dependency Management. In: Introducing Maven. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-0841-0_3

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