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Jifeng Zhang commented on MNG-3397: ----------------------------------- It would be great to have this feature. At least 50% of the lines of my poms are the dependencies section. With the support of using attributes, the dependency section will be reduced at least 70% in length and more easy to read. For example, from 4 lines: <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.16</version> </dependency> to one line: <dependency groupId="org.apache.maven.plugins" artifactId="maven-surefire-plugin" version="2.16"/> > [RFC] change the POM to use attributes > -------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-3397 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-3397 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Bug > Components: POM > Affects Versions: 2.0.8 > Reporter: Brett Porter > Fix For: Issues to be reviewed for 4.x > > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira