如何在 pom.xml 之前在 maven 中预加载一些依赖项/插件？

Question

we are creating a lot of short lived test projects at my work. Dozens of them each day. we have about 10 dependencies that we use internally at our workplace - these are all custom plugins. I want to get people to not have to mess with their pom.xml for the official dependencies just to get started. so either create a bash script that has all the dependencies on cli...or try to inherit one common xml from all these pom.xml.

I looked at other answers (like Reusing ant-snippets in multi-module maven build ), but i dont think these work. im also looking to see if i can use multimodule builds, but then it is even more boilerplate.

i was also looking at maven-dependency-plugin, but I think it only copies/downloads dependencies...u still need to add them to pom.xml.

I also saw some similar questions in gradle area ( Add dynamic dependencies via command line ), but unsure if it works in maven.

so my question stands - how do I add a large number of dependencies to a maven project, WITHOUT messing with the pom.xml file? Any help will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

You can create a parent pom dependency, include all needed dependencies in it and then use it as parent dependency for your small projects, like this:

<parent>
  <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>some-parent-pom</artifactId>
  <version>DEV-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

Do not forget to run mvn clean install to install the parent POM to your local repository.