Maven 2.0.9 introduced the ability to override a dependency used by a plugin. This is handy when you want to use a newer checkstyle, pmd, etc jar than is included by default in the plugin.

How you go about doing this actually depends on your use case because of an oversight in the Maven 4.0.0 model used by the Maven 2.0.x versions.

If you are using a plugin as a normal build plugin (as opposed to a report) then you will have it bound similar to this: Read more…

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