如何在gradle中重用pom.xml中定义的依赖项

Question

I want to reuse the dependencies defined in this pom.xml file It's quite a long list of dependices. I want to reuse it for convenience.

so I added a line in my build.gradle file like this.:

dependencies {
   // unfortunately,  Gradle seems just ignore this line.
   compile("org.activiti:activiti-ui-root:6.0.0")  
}

But it seems that gradle just ingore this line. What's the best way of reusing a pom file if I don't want to rewrite a long list of dependencies?

Please give me some advise, many thanks.

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Thanks, all you guys. finally I find "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin" helps to solve my problem.

@madhead is right. pom.xml just provide the version of jars, but will not import any file into my project.

That pom.xml does not actually define any dependencies, it only defines versions of artifacts in dependencyManagement block. Thus, depending on this artifact in Gradle does not bring any transitive dependencies in your project (neither it will in Maven, btw).

but it's OK. the version information is enough.

This segment is what I use to solve my problem.

buildscript {

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    jcenter()     
}

dependencies {
    classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:1.0.3.RELEASE"
}  }

.......

project(':editor-image-generator') {

dependencyManagement {
  imports {
       // import the pom.xml from outside.
     mavenBom "org.activiti:activiti-ui-root:6.0.0"
  }
}

dependencies {
      // It's good to see that, you don't need to specify the version here.
      // with the mavenBom imported above,  you can always get the right version.
    compile("org.activiti:activiti-bpmn-model")
    testCompile("org.activiti:activiti-bpmn-converter")
    compile("org.activiti:activiti-image-generator")
    compile("org.imgscalr:imgscalr-lib:4.2")
    compile("org.slf4j:slf4j-api")
    testCompile("commons-io:commons-io")
    testCompile("junit:junit")
}

}

Answer 1

That pom.xml does not actually define any dependencies, it only defines versions of artifacts in dependencyManagement block . Thus, depending on this artifact in Gradle does not bring any transitive dependencies in your project (neither it will in Maven, btw).

What you can try in Spring's dependency management plugin for Gradle. It allows to reuse that dependencyManagement block definition for BOMs in Gradle.