Badgerfish dependencies parent allows you to create your own project for referencing external dependencies.
'com.googlecode.aaw.badgerfish:dependencies-maven-parent:0.1.3'
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.aaw.badgerfish</groupId>
<artifactId>dependencies-maven-parent</artifactId>
<version>0.1.3</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="com.googlecode.aaw.badgerfish" name="dependencies-maven-parent" rev="0.1.3"/>
"com.googlecode.aaw.badgerfish", "dependencies-maven-parent", "0.1.3"