For the transitive dependency feature of Maven 2 to work, the group and artifact
IDs need to be consistent across projects.
I'm having trouble with a project that depends on MyFaces 1.1.0 and Chain 1.0.
Chain is bringing in a dependency on MyFaces 1.0.8-beta which has a different
artifact id, and Maven has no way of knowing that myfaces-jsf-api-1.0.8-beta.jar
and myfaces-api-1.1.0.jar are two versions of the same artifact.
Similarly, updating the group and artifact ids for the Sun APIs. (See:
http://maven.apache.org/reference/standard-sun-jar-names.html
)
Patch for Chain's Maven build