Maven publish pom.xml dependencies?

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1

I can’t understand why the publish plugin did not output any dependencies.

This structure publishes the jar but there is no dependencies in the pom.

zips(MavenPublication) {
            artifact jar
}

When I changed to

zips(MavenPublication) {
            componets.java
}

I got the expected dependencies in the pom.

What causes the difference?

2

Well, the difference is in what you say you want. In the first case you say “just publish this artifact without any further information” which almost always is a bad idea. I’m the second case you tell to publish the Java component which has the information about artifacts to publish - including sources jar, JavaDoc jar, feature variant jars, … -, the dependencies to put in the pom, and so on.