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When resolving dependencies, Maven will prefer a version specified in the POM's section over the version resolved from dependencies and transitive dependencies.

Note that can be inherited from a parent POM.

See the Maven documentation on Dependency Mechanism for more info.

Specifically, check the part of the page that starts as below for a detailed explanation.

A second, and very important use of the dependency management section is to control the versions of artifacts used in transitive dependencies. As an example consider these projects:

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