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Chapter 2. Dependency management

A specific Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Quarkus release is supposed to work only with a specific Quarkus release.

2.1. Quarkus tooling for starting a new project
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The easiest and most straightforward way to get the dependency versions right in a new project is to use one of the Quarkus tools:

These tools allow you to select extensions and scaffold a new Maven project.

Tip

The universe of available extensions spans over Quarkus Core, Camel Quarkus and several other third party participating projects, such as Hazelcast, Cassandra, Kogito and OptaPlanner.

The generated pom.xml will look similar to the following: 

<project>
  ...
  <properties>
    <quarkus.platform.artifact-id>quarkus-bom</quarkus.platform.artifact-id>
    <quarkus.platform.group-id>com.redhat.quarkus.platform</quarkus.platform.group-id>
    <quarkus.platform.version>
        <!-- The latest 3.2.x version from https://maven.repository.redhat.com/ga/com/redhat/quarkus/platform/quarkus-bom -->
    </quarkus.platform.version>
    ...
  </properties>
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <!-- The BOMs managing the dependency versions -->
      <dependency>
        <groupId>${quarkus.platform.group-id}</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-bom</artifactId>
        <version>${quarkus.platform.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>${quarkus.platform.group-id}</groupId>
        <artifactId>quarkus-camel-bom</artifactId>
        <version>${quarkus.platform.version}</version>
        <type>pom</type>
        <scope>import</scope>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>

  <dependencies>
    <!-- The extensions you chose in the project generator tool -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.camel.quarkus</groupId>
      <artifactId>camel-quarkus-sql</artifactId>
      <!-- No explicit version required here and below -->
    </dependency>
    ...
  </dependencies>
  ...
</project>
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Note

BOM stands for "Bill of Materials" - it is a pom.xml whose main purpose is to manage the versions of artifacts so that end users importing the BOM in their projects do not need to care which particular versions of the artifacts are supposed to work together. In other words, having a BOM imported in the <depependencyManagement> section of your pom.xml allows you to avoid specifying versions for the dependencies managed by the given BOM.

Which particular BOMs end up in the pom.xml file depends on extensions you have selected in the generator tool. The generator tools take care to select a minimal consistent set.

If you choose to add an extension at a later point that is not managed by any of the BOMs in your pom.xml file, you do not need to search for the appropriate BOM manually.

With the quarkus-maven-plugin you can select the extension, and the tool adds the appropriate BOM as required. You can also use the quarkus-maven-plugin to upgrade the BOM versions.

The com.redhat.quarkus.platform BOMs are aligned with each other which means that if an artifact is managed in more than one BOM, it is always managed with the same version. This has the advantage that application developers do not need to care for the compatibility of the individual artifacts that may come from various independent projects.

2.2. Combining with other BOMs
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When combining camel-quarkus-bom with any other BOM, think carefully in which order you import them, because the order of imports defines the precedence.

I.e. if my-foo-bom is imported before camel-quarkus-bom then the versions defined in my-foo-bom will take the precedence. This might or might not be what you want, depending on whether there are any overlaps between my-foo-bom and camel-quarkus-bom and depending on whether those versions with higher precedence work with the rest of the artifacts managed in camel-quarkus-bom.

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