maven parent pom dependency-management in gradle - maven

Question

In maven, you can declare depenencies versions in dependency management section.
Say I have such pom for managing default versions of some libraries for all of my projects (so I don't have to repeat them all over again and so I can ensure some consistency across all of my projects).
Then I have multiple projects(project A and project B) which have this pom set as parent pom. If in project A I want to use spring.jar, and I have spring.jar defined in dependency-management of A's parent pom, I don't have to define spring version in A's pom again, I just define that it depends on spring. So far it's ok, is pretty simple how to do it in gradle too (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9547170)
What I'm wondering about is this situation:
Imagine that spring 3.0 depends on hibernate 3.0. In A's parent pom I have defined hibernate dependency in dependency-management section with version 3.1, but spring is not defined there. Spring is defined in A's pom (with version 3.0). Dependency resolution in maven for project A would result in fetching spring 3.0 and hibernate 3.1 - because despite fact that spring 3.0 depends on hibernate 3.0, dependency-management of A's parent pom overrides hibernate version, so 3.1 would be used instead.
Is there way of defining something similar in gradle? Note that I didn't have to specify hibernate in A's pom specificly and also it is not specified as dependency in A's parent pom - it is only in dependency-management section of A's parent pom.

Answer 1

The io.spring.dependency-management plugin allows you to use a Maven bom to control your build's dependencies:
buildscript {
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
classpath "io.spring.gradle:dependency-management-plugin:0.5.3.RELEASE"
}
}
apply plugin: "io.spring.dependency-management"
Next, you can use it to import a Maven bom:
dependencyManagement {
imports {
mavenBom 'io.spring.platform:platform-bom:1.1.4.RELEASE'
}
}
Now, you can import dependencies without specifying a version number:
dependencies {
compile 'org.springframework:spring-orm'
compile 'org.hibernate:hibernate-core'
}