Issue while using Spring IO Platform - spring

Question

I have created a Spring MVC Project with Maven. I am new to Spring framework. With reference to the following tutorial, I am trying to analyze the Spring Data JPA repositories. I have enabled the Spring IO platform in my pom.xml with the following configuration:
<dependency>
<groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
After that I have added the other required dependencies without mentioning the version as follows:
<!-- Database (H2) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- DataSource (HikariCP) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
<artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JPA Provider (Hibernate) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Data JPA -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
The tutorial says that Spring IO platform will take care of the versions. But When I try to do this I'm getting an error in my pom.xml saying that
Project build error: 'dependencies.dependency.version' for com.h2database:h2:jar is missing.
Any suggestions that how can I use and enable Spring IO?

Answer 1

The following POM will work:
<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>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<groupId>test</groupId>
<artifactId>test</artifactId>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.3</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencies>
<!-- Database (H2) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- DataSource (HikariCP) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.zaxxer</groupId>
<artifactId>HikariCP</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- JPA Provider (Hibernate) -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
</dependency>
<!-- Spring Data JPA -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.spring.platform</groupId>
<artifactId>platform-bom</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2.RELEASE</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>
The important part is to put Spring IO dependency inside the dependencyManagement section of the POM. This is because it has the scope import.