Dependencies and repositories are central to Maven. Most people approach Maven as a tool in a very large stack of technology and they might not have the time to dig into the details. You might be using Eclipse, Maven, Nexus, Hudson, in addition to the various libraries and servers that are involved in your development environment, and Maven’s dependency management is often so effective at hiding the details of repositories and dependencies that you take some of the complexity behind the scenes for granted. This post explains how dependencies and repositories work together for people who are interested some of the details that make dependency management in Maven “just work”.

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