Maven BOM for Tomcat 8.5 provided dependencies

A Maven BOM to simplify dependencies management in your webapp.

Provided specifications

• Servlet 3.1 - JSR 340
• JSP 2.3 - JSR 245
• EL 3.0 - JSR 341
• WebSocket 1.1 - JSR 356
• JASPIC 1.1 - JSR 196

The versions used are summarized here :
Apache Tomcat Versions

Specifications used with Tomcat versions are detailed here :
Specifications

Usage

The BOM must be imported as scope “import” with the “pom” type, in the dependencyManagement section.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>fr.husta.tomcat</groupId>
            <artifactId>tomcat-provided-spec-bom</artifactId>
            <version>8.5</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Then, simply import the needed dependency without specifying the version.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
        <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Maven documentation

About the “bill of materials” (BOM) : Introduction to the Dependency Mechanism

Another example of BOM usage with Spring Framework : http://platform.spring.io/platform/#quick-start