Setting project.version for pom dependency - maven

Question

I need to set the value for project.version. The reference to ${project.version} will be in the pom for one of my dependencies in its dependency management section. In other words, the dependency org.apache.gora:gora-core:0.2.1 has parameterized the versions of its dependencies. Just my having included gora-core as a simple dependency doesn't set project.version and so none of those indirect dependencies are being included in my build.
The maven documentation hasn't been much help.

Answer 1

Works for me with Maven 3.0.4
<project>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>a</groupId>
<artifactId>b</artifactId>
<version>1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.gora</groupId>
<artifactId>gora-core</artifactId>
<version>0.2.1</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
And when I ask Maven what the dependencies of that are:
$ mvn dependency:tree
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building b 1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.1:tree (default-cli) # b ---
[INFO] a:b:jar:1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] \- org.apache.gora:gora-core:jar:0.2.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-core:jar:1.0.1:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-cli:commons-cli:jar:1.2:compile
[INFO] | +- xmlenc:xmlenc:jar:0.52:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-httpclient:commons-httpclient:jar:3.0.1:compile
[INFO] | | +- junit:junit:jar:3.8.1:compile
[INFO] | | \- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.0.3:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.4:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.commons:commons-math:jar:2.1:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-configuration:commons-configuration:jar:1.6:compile
[INFO] | | +- commons-collections:commons-collections:jar:3.2.1:compile
[INFO] | | +- commons-digester:commons-digester:jar:1.8:compile
[INFO] | | | \- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:jar:1.7.0:compile
[INFO] | | \- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils-core:jar:1.8.0:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-net:commons-net:jar:1.4.1:compile
[INFO] | +- org.mortbay.jetty:jetty:jar:6.1.26:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api:jar:2.5-20081211:compile
[INFO] | +- org.mortbay.jetty:jetty-util:jar:6.1.26:compile
[INFO] | +- tomcat:jasper-runtime:jar:5.5.12:compile
[INFO] | +- tomcat:jasper-compiler:jar:5.5.12:compile
[INFO] | +- org.mortbay.jetty:jsp-api-2.1:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.mortbay.jetty:servlet-api-2.5:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO] | +- org.mortbay.jetty:jsp-2.1:jar:6.1.14:compile
[INFO] | | \- ant:ant:jar:1.6.5:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-el:commons-el:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] | +- net.sf.kosmosfs:kfs:jar:0.3:compile
[INFO] | \- oro:oro:jar:2.0.8:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-frontend-jaxrs:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-common-utilities:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.apache.ws.xmlschema:xmlschema-core:jar:2.0.1:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.codehaus.woodstox:woodstox-core-asl:jar:4.1.1:runtime
[INFO] | | \- org.codehaus.woodstox:stax2-api:jar:3.1.1:runtime
[INFO] | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-api:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.apache.neethi:neethi:jar:3.0.1:compile
[INFO] | | \- wsdl4j:wsdl4j:jar:1.6.2:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-core:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | | +- com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-impl:jar:2.1.13:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-javamail_1.4_spec:jar:1.7.1:compile
[INFO] | +- org.springframework:spring-core:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-asm:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | +- javax.ws.rs:jsr311-api:jar:1.1.1:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-bindings-xml:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-http:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.apache.cxf:cxf-rt-transports-common:jar:2.5.2:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-web:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | +- aopalliance:aopalliance:jar:1.0:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.springframework:spring-beans:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-context:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.springframework:spring-aop:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.springframework:spring-expression:jar:3.0.6.RELEASE:compile
[INFO] | \- org.codehaus.jettison:jettison:jar:1.3.1:compile
[INFO] +- org.apache.hadoop:avro:jar:1.3.3:compile
[INFO] | +- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-mapper-asl:jar:1.4.2:compile
[INFO] | | \- org.codehaus.jackson:jackson-core-asl:jar:1.4.2:compile
[INFO] | +- org.slf4j:slf4j-api:jar:1.5.11:compile
[INFO] | +- com.thoughtworks.paranamer:paranamer:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] | \- com.thoughtworks.paranamer:paranamer-ant:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] | +- com.thoughtworks.paranamer:paranamer-generator:jar:2.2:compile
[INFO] | | +- com.thoughtworks.qdox:qdox:jar:1.10.1:compile
[INFO] | | \- asm:asm:jar:3.2:compile
[INFO] | \- org.apache.ant:ant:jar:1.7.1:compile
[INFO] | \- org.apache.ant:ant-launcher:jar:1.7.1:compile
[INFO] +- commons-lang:commons-lang:jar:2.6:compile
[INFO] \- log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.16:compile
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2.301s
[INFO] Finished at: Wed Sep 19 19:10:04 IST 2012
[INFO] Final Memory: 8M/81M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
All being pulled in quite fine