在我看来，还有一件事没有被充分强调，那就是不想要的继承。

下面是一个增量的例子:

我在父母的遗言中声明:

<dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
            <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
            <version>19.0</version>
        </dependency>
</dependencies>

繁荣!我把它放在我的子A、子B和子C模块中:

由子poms继承的隐式 一个单独的地方来管理 不需要在child pooms中重新声明任何内容 如果我想，我仍然可以在子B中重新调用和覆盖到18.0版本。

但是，如果我最终在Child C中不需要番石榴，在未来的Child D和Child E模块中也不需要番石榴呢?

他们仍然会继承它，这是不希望的! 这就像Java的God Object代码一样，从类中继承了一些有用的部分，同时也继承了大量不需要的东西。

这就是<dependencyManagement>发挥作用的地方。当你把它添加到你的父pom，你所有的子模块停止看到它。因此，你被迫进入每个单独的模块，确实需要它，并再次声明它(子A和子B，但没有版本)。

显然，您不会为Child C这样做，因此您的模块仍然是精简的。

就像你说的;dependencyManagement用于将所有依赖关系信息拉入一个公共POM文件，从而简化子POM文件中的引用。

当您有多个不想在多个子项目下重新输入的属性时，它就变得非常有用。

最后，dependencyManagement可用于定义工件的标准版本，以便在多个项目中使用。

依赖项管理允许合并和集中管理依赖项版本，而不需要添加由所有子继承的依赖项。当你有一组继承共同父项的项目(即多个)时，这尤其有用。

dependencyManagement的另一个极其重要的用例是控制在传递依赖关系中使用的工件的版本。没有例子很难解释。幸运的是，文档中对此进行了说明。

有几个答案概述了maven的< dependencies >和<dependencyManagement>标记之间的区别。

但是，下面简要阐述了几点:

<dependencyManagement> allows to consolidate all dependencies (used at child pom level) used across different modules -- clarity, central dependency version management <dependencyManagement> allows to easily upgrade/downgrade dependencies based on need, in other scenario this needs to be exercised at every child pom level -- consistency dependencies provided in <dependencies> tag is always imported, while dependencies provided at <dependencyManagement> in parent pom will be imported only if child pom has respective entry in its <dependencies> tag.

在Eclipse中，dependencyManagement中还有一个特性。当使用依赖项而不使用它时，将在pom文件中注意到未找到的依赖项。如果使用dependencyManagement，则pom文件中不会发现未解决的依赖项，错误只出现在java文件中。(进口等…)

The documentation on the Maven site is horrible. What dependencyManagement does is simply move your dependency definitions (version, exclusions, etc) up to the parent pom, then in the child poms you just have to put the groupId and artifactId. That's it (except for parent pom chaining and the like, but that's not really complicated either - dependencyManagement wins out over dependencies at the parent level - but if have a question about that or imports, the Maven documentation is a little better).

After reading all of the 'a', 'b', 'c' garbage on the Maven site and getting confused, I re-wrote their example. So if you had 2 projects (proj1 and proj2) which share a common dependency (betaShared) you could move that dependency up to the parent pom. While you are at it, you can also move up any other dependencies (alpha and charlie) but only if it makes sense for your project. So for the situation outlined in the prior sentences, here is the solution with dependencyManagement in the parent pom:

<!-- ParentProj pom -->
<project>
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency> <!-- not much benefit defining alpha here, as we only use in 1 child, so optional -->
        <groupId>alpha</groupId>
        <artifactId>alpha</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <exclusions>
          <exclusion>
            <groupId>zebra</groupId>
            <artifactId>zebra</artifactId>
          </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>charlie</groupId> <!-- not much benefit defining charlie here, so optional -->
        <artifactId>charlie</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <type>war</type>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency> <!-- defining betaShared here makes a lot of sense -->
        <groupId>betaShared</groupId>
        <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <type>bar</type>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
</project>

<!-- Child Proj1 pom -->
<project>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>alpha</groupId>
      <artifactId>alpha</artifactId>  <!-- jar type IS DEFAULT, so no need to specify in child projects -->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>betaShared</groupId>
      <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId>
      <type>bar</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

<!-- Child Proj2 -->
<project>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>charlie</groupId>
      <artifactId>charlie</artifactId>
      <type>war</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>betaShared</groupId> 
      <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId> 
      <type>bar</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>