如何在全球范围内管理不同Maven项目之间的依赖关系？

Question

I have X maven project which has dependencies on Y maven project. If I make changes in Y project and build it, how to start X's build also without any manual intervention?

Answer 1

I hope you mind you want to keep your X project up-to-date; so when you launch a new build of your Y project then the X project start a new compilation and takes the latest version of Y artifact. If so, the best way is to relay all these operations on a continuous integration strategy. In your case, for instance, you can set up a new configuration in Jenkins (you can install it in your local tomcat and just deploy the war Jenkins application on it) in which for every time Y project launches a new compilation the X project starts a new build taking the new Y version deployment libraries or whatever it shares in the maven repository. The result is that you will have always the X project aligned with the latest version on Y project. Anyway, you must assure you have defined and implemented regression test units either on both projects in order to detect how the new version behaves according to the current project specifications.