A Maven plugin that sorts the pom.xml file.
'com.google.code.sortpom:maven-sortpom-plugin:2.3.0'
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.code.sortpom</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-sortpom-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="com.google.code.sortpom" name="maven-sortpom-plugin" rev="2.3.0"/>
"com.google.code.sortpom", "maven-sortpom-plugin", "2.3.0"