Dependencies added to pluginManagement not taken into account during reporting

Question

I am trying to configure the Maven Checkstyle Plugin for reporting and would like to change the Checkstyle dependency to 7.5 instead of the standard 6.11.2.

To achieve this, I declare a pluginManagementdependency in the parent pom. In a child project, I just reference the plugin in the reporting tag.

However, I see that by default Checkstyle (6.11.2) loads into the repository. Please see below parent and child care.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>parent_app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <name>parent_app</name>
  <modules>
    <module>my-app2</module>
  </modules>
  <build>
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.17</version>
          <dependencies>
            <dependency>
              <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
              <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
              <version>7.5</version>
            </dependency>
          </dependencies>
        </plugin>
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
  </build>
</project>

Baby pom.xml

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <parent>
    <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
    <artifactId>parent_app</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>
  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-app2</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>my-app2</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
   <reporting>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <configLocation>src/main/resources/checkstyle.xml</configLocation>
            </configuration>
            <reportSets>
                <reportSet>
                    <reports>
                        <report>checkstyle</report>
                    </reports>
                </reportSet>
            </reportSets>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</reporting>
</project>

Can you help if this is the right way to override dependency for a reporting plugin? If so, why is it not working?

Maven Version: 3.2.5

Answer 1

, Maven (, MSITE-507). , , , , . POM ( Maven 3.3.9):

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.17</version>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
            <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
            <version>7.5</version>
          </dependency>
        </dependencies>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </pluginManagement>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

, (, mvn clean site), Checkstyle 7.5.