Spring AI Spring AI BOM uses ${project.version} in dependency management which is wrong

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Bug description Spring AI BOM uses ${project.version} in dependency management which is wrong

Environment Maven, Gradle etc

Steps to reproduce Import Spring AI BOM and try to use one of the dependencies in your own project. Notice your own project version is used as Maven resolves ${project.version} to nearest POM file not to Spring AI version.

Expected behavior Using the BOM file in Maven should allow me to avoid having to specify the version of any dependency. Because of ${project.version} use, I am now forced to specify a version.

Minimal Complete Reproducible example Create a maven POM file and add this to its dependency management:

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-ai-bom</artifactId>
            <version>${spring-ai.version}</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>

<dependenc>
    <dependencies>
        <!-- Below results in [ERROR]     'dependencies.dependency.version' for org.springframework.ai:spring-ai-starter-mcp-client:jar is missing. -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-client</artifactId>
        </dependency>

Comment From: paulbors

PR with fix: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/pull/4640

Comment From: ilayaperumalg

Hi @paulbors, Thanks for reporting. We have been using Spring AI BOM in our examples and this works fine with the current configuration. Please check the example repo here

Comment From: paulbors

Hey @ilayaperumalg, thanks... we traced it to another issue in our POM file. It's working. Will close MR

Comment From: ilayaperumalg

@paulbors Thanks for confirming!