[WW-5376] struts2-bom should not pull in non-struts dependencies from struts2-parent

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 6.5.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tyler King
• Created: 19/Dec/23 18:27
• Updated: 06/Apr/24 16:46

Description

The parent of struts-bom pom file is the struts2-parent pom file. The struts2-parent pom file includes a dependencyManagement section with many non-struts dependencies (including test dependencies such as junit and mockito), which are inherited in the struts-bom pom file. This is bad practice for a bom file since consumers of that bom will have versions for dependencies unrelated to struts locked down.

See https://www.garretwilson.com/blog/2023/06/14/improve-maven-bom-pattern and https://github.com/apache/logging-log4j2 for an example of how they have both parent and bom pom files