BOM for third-party modules

What is a software BOM?

A Software Bill of Materials (software BOM) is a list of components in a piece of software. Software vendors often create products by assembling open source and commercial software components. The software BOM describes the components in a product. It is analogous to a list of ingredients on food packaging. (Wikipedia)

BOM in Magnolia

Since the release of Magnolia 5.5.7 you may optionally use a special BOM project to centralize dependencies for third-party modules instead of managing them in the magnolia-main module and some other modules like magnolia-ui and rest . This third-party BOM project is a just plain Maven POM project whose only responsibility is to manage the versions of third-party dependencies in POM file such as magnolia-external-dependencies-5.5.7.pom .

To use a BOM in your project, include the following code snippet as the very first dependency in the dependency management section of the parent poms and adjust the version number accordingly (the number is in sync with the bundle version):

<dependencyManagement>
 <dependencies>
  <dependency>
   <groupId>info.magnolia.boms</groupId>
   <artifactId>magnolia-external-dependencies</artifactId>
   <version>5.5.7</version>
   <type>pom</type>
   <scope>import</scope>
  </dependency>
 </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

The BOM in Magnolia 5.5.7

Released for Magnolia 5.5.7, the BOM below (click the link to expand and see the content) centralizes the dependencies originally scattered around the following modules (projects):

• magnolia-main
• magnolia-ui
• magnolia-rest
• magnolia-cache-browser-app
• magnolia-module-mail

See also

• Software bill of materials (English Wikipedia)
• BOM (English Wikipedia)