Differences between dependencyManagement and dependencies in Maven

Question

What is the difference between dependencyManagement and dependencies? I have seen the docs at Apache Maven web site. It seems that a dependency def

Answer 1

If you have a parent-pom anyways, then in my opinion using just for controlling the version (and maybe scope) is a waste of space and confuses junior developers.

You will probably have properties for versions anyways, in some kind of parent-pom file. Why not just use this properties in the child pom's? That way you can still update a version in the property (within parent-pom) for all child projects at once. That has the same effect as just without .

In my opinion, should be used for "real" management of dependencies, like exclusions and the like.