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>

我不建议使用dependencyManagement。

使用它的唯一好处是您可以在父pom中定义版本，而不需要在子pom中再次定义它。但是如果你有一组项目(特别是微服务项目)。使用dependencyManagement没有任何好处。

不同的项目可能需要不同的依赖关系。为什么要从同一个父pom继承它。尽可能保持简单。如果一个项目需要A依赖项，则将其添加到pom文件中。不要让开发人员感到困惑。

为了便于理解，这里作了解释。 dependencyManagement和dependencies之间的最终区别是声明和添加

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。

我在这个问题上迟到了，但我认为它值得一个比公认的回答更清晰的回答(公认的回答是正确的，但没有强调实际重要的部分，这需要您自己推断)。

在父POM中，<dependencies>和<dependencyManagement>之间的主要区别是:

Artifacts specified in the <dependencies> section will ALWAYS be included as a dependency of the child module(s). Artifacts specified in the <dependencyManagement> section, will only be included in the child module if they were also specified in the <dependencies> section of the child module itself. Why is it good you ask? Because you specify the version and/or scope in the parent, and you can leave them out when specifying the dependencies in the child POM. This can help you use unified versions for dependencies for child modules, without specifying the version in each child module.

用我自己的话来说，你的父项目帮助你提供了两种依赖:

implicit dependencies : all the dependencies defined in the <dependencies> section in your parent-project are inherited by all the child-projects explicit dependencies : allows you to select, the dependencies to apply in your child-projects. Thus, you use the <dependencyManagement> section, to declare all the dependencies you are going to use in your different child-projects. The most important thing is that, in this section, you define a <version> so that you don't have to declare it again in your child-project.

在我看来，<dependencyManagement>(如果我错了请纠正我)只是通过帮助您集中依赖项的版本而有用。它就像一种辅助功能。 作为最佳实践，您的<dependencyManagement>必须在父项目中，其他项目将继承它。一个典型的例子是通过声明Spring父项目来创建Spring项目。