如果你无论如何都有一个parent-pom，那么在我看来，使用<dependencyManagement>只是为了控制版本(可能还有范围)是一种浪费空间的行为，而且会让初级开发人员感到困惑。

无论如何，在某种父-pom文件中，您可能会有版本的属性。为什么不直接在子pom中使用这个属性呢?这样，您仍然可以为所有子项目一次更新属性中的版本(在父-pom内)。这与<dependencyManagement>具有相同的效果，只是没有<dependencyManagement>。

在我看来，<dependencyManagement>应该用于“真正的”依赖项管理，比如排除等。

如果依赖项是在顶级pom的dependencyManagement元素中定义的，子项目就不必显式地列出依赖项的版本。如果子项目确实定义了一个版本，它将覆盖顶层中列出的版本 POM的依赖管理部分。也就是说，dependencyManagement版本仅为 当子进程没有直接声明版本时使用。

用我自己的话来说，你的父项目帮助你提供了两种依赖:

implicit dependencies : all the dependencies defined in the <dependencies> section in your parent-project are inherited by all the child-projects explicit dependencies : allows you to select, the dependencies to apply in your child-projects. Thus, you use the <dependencyManagement> section, to declare all the dependencies you are going to use in your different child-projects. The most important thing is that, in this section, you define a <version> so that you don't have to declare it again in your child-project.

在我看来，<dependencyManagement>(如果我错了请纠正我)只是通过帮助您集中依赖项的版本而有用。它就像一种辅助功能。 作为最佳实践，您的<dependencyManagement>必须在父项目中，其他项目将继承它。一个典型的例子是通过声明Spring父项目来创建Spring项目。

就像你说的;dependencyManagement用于将所有依赖关系信息拉入一个公共POM文件，从而简化子POM文件中的引用。

当您有多个不想在多个子项目下重新输入的属性时，它就变得非常有用。

最后，dependencyManagement可用于定义工件的标准版本，以便在多个项目中使用。

The documentation on the Maven site is horrible. What dependencyManagement does is simply move your dependency definitions (version, exclusions, etc) up to the parent pom, then in the child poms you just have to put the groupId and artifactId. That's it (except for parent pom chaining and the like, but that's not really complicated either - dependencyManagement wins out over dependencies at the parent level - but if have a question about that or imports, the Maven documentation is a little better).

After reading all of the 'a', 'b', 'c' garbage on the Maven site and getting confused, I re-wrote their example. So if you had 2 projects (proj1 and proj2) which share a common dependency (betaShared) you could move that dependency up to the parent pom. While you are at it, you can also move up any other dependencies (alpha and charlie) but only if it makes sense for your project. So for the situation outlined in the prior sentences, here is the solution with dependencyManagement in the parent pom:

<!-- ParentProj pom -->
<project>
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency> <!-- not much benefit defining alpha here, as we only use in 1 child, so optional -->
        <groupId>alpha</groupId>
        <artifactId>alpha</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <exclusions>
          <exclusion>
            <groupId>zebra</groupId>
            <artifactId>zebra</artifactId>
          </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
        <groupId>charlie</groupId> <!-- not much benefit defining charlie here, so optional -->
        <artifactId>charlie</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <type>war</type>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency> <!-- defining betaShared here makes a lot of sense -->
        <groupId>betaShared</groupId>
        <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <type>bar</type>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
</project>

<!-- Child Proj1 pom -->
<project>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>alpha</groupId>
      <artifactId>alpha</artifactId>  <!-- jar type IS DEFAULT, so no need to specify in child projects -->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>betaShared</groupId>
      <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId>
      <type>bar</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

<!-- Child Proj2 -->
<project>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>charlie</groupId>
      <artifactId>charlie</artifactId>
      <type>war</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>betaShared</groupId> 
      <artifactId>betaShared</artifactId> 
      <type>bar</type> <!-- This is not a jar dependency, so we must specify type. -->
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

我不建议使用dependencyManagement。

使用它的唯一好处是您可以在父pom中定义版本，而不需要在子pom中再次定义它。但是如果你有一组项目(特别是微服务项目)。使用dependencyManagement没有任何好处。

不同的项目可能需要不同的依赖关系。为什么要从同一个父pom继承它。尽可能保持简单。如果一个项目需要A依赖项，则将其添加到pom文件中。不要让开发人员感到困惑。