The CLM Book - Optimized Component Lifecycle Management with Sonatype CLM

Once you have selected a specific component in the list on the left of the component info view, Sonatype CLM can determine in which projects the component is used. After pressing the Locate Declarations button, and once the search has completed, you will see the results in a tree view of projects and project pom.xml files, all displayed in the Search window.

Inspecting this list can help you assess the impact of a potential upgrade to a new component version. Further detail is documented in Section 16.7, “Migrating to Different Component Versions”. Looking at the found projects, you can potentially remove wrong declarations, determine side effects from transitive dependencies, or find out why this component shows up as dependency at all.