Maven Dependencies Pop Quiz – Results

A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to a pop quiz regarding dependency resolution in Apache Maven. 509 brave souls took the challenge; now is the time to share the results. The quiz is comprised of 14 questions split between 3 sections based on context: A single project A project with a parent POM A project with a BOM Each question revolves around figuring out what would be the selected version of a particular dependency, in this case Guava, because as many developers know, whenever there’s a classpath issue Guava is always to blame (What?!) To be fair, Read More


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