SpringBoot How to change the properties value from the spring-boot bom(pom.xml) file? Now I am using the selenium library?

👋 Hi, I’m a springboot user Now, I found a problem.

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In Spring-boot bom(pom.xml) file, there are many properties. like:

    <selenium.version>3.141.59</selenium.version>
    <selenium-htmlunit.version>2.49.1</selenium-htmlunit.version>

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Now, I want to use the version of

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

but when execute the mvn command, I got, most of the version of selenium-xxx modules are 3.141.59. My requirement is to use version 4.0.0, above is not what I want.

So, can you help me to resolve it? Or how to user a another way? I don't want to write the pom.xml with many sub dependencies, like

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-chrome-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-devtools-v85</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-devtools-v93</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-devtools-v94</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-devtools-v95</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-edge-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-firefox-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-firefox-xpi-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-ie-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-opera-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-safari-driver</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-support</artifactId>
            <version>4.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

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I havd tried to change value of the property selenium.version, but I found it no effect on it.

    <properties>
        <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.encoding>UTF-8</maven.compiler.encoding>

        <!-- to change: selenium.version -->
        <selenium.version>4.0.0</selenium.version>
        <selenium-htmlunit.version>2.49.1</selenium-htmlunit.version>
    </properties>

Thank you very much, waiting for you answer.

Comment From: wilkinsona

Thanks for getting in touch, but it feels like this is a question that would be better suited to Stack Overflow. As mentioned in the guidelines for contributing, we prefer to use GitHub issues only for bugs and enhancements. Feel free to update this issue with a link to the re-posted question (so that other people can find it) or add some more details if you feel this is a genuine bug.

Please also see the relevant section of the Maven plugin's documentation.

Comment From: niit-qd

Thank you very much. I will do it following you advice.