m2e-pde integration for pom dependencies

[vogella]

AFAIK the current m2e-pde integration does not allow to use Maven dependencies if they are "only" poms. For example:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
  <artifactId>itext-parent</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
  <type>pom</type>
</dependency>

Would be cool if m2e-pde could also support these and get the defind dependencies as it does for the dependencies of Java libraries.

[laeubi]

Yep that is an open issue :-)

Its on my todo list but at the moment not high-priority, if there are customer demands feel free to contact me and offer a funding for such a feature.

[laeubi]

@vogella I have created some adjustment but your example seems to be a bad use-case (except for the fact that it should not generate an error) as it has no compile or other dependencies. So adding this to the target currently could not have any effect.

[vogella]

Looking at the itext pom dependency again, I see that it has no dependency. Sorry for this bad example.

[laeubi]

No problem if you find a more suitable one I could use for testing let me know!

[laeubi]

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.sun.xml.ws/jaxws-ri/3.0.2 might be a better example here ...

[laeubi]

I have checked this with the jaxws-ri dependency mentioned above and it works like expected: