title: Maven BOM [Bill Of Materials] Dependency
body: <p>I am not understanding what is the purpose of bom object? and I am working on Spring 3.2.8 version and with JBoss server, so which bom dependency I need to use? When I mention the following dependency in pom.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependency&gt;
              &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework&lt;/groupId&gt;
              &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-framework-bom&lt;/artifactId&gt;
              &lt;version&gt;4.0.1.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
              &lt;type&gt;pom&lt;/type&gt;
              &lt;scope&gt;import&lt;/scope&gt;
  &lt;/dependency&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Does the jar file gets downloaded into my Maven Dependencies? </p>