Originally the parent POM handled very little, and the components had
to do much more.
Component POMs had to define settings for plugins such as Cobertura.
Swapping from Cobertura to JaCoCo thus entails more work for
components that started using Cobertura before the parent was updated.
The paren
I still don't get why I need to (re)configure so many plugins in JEXL's pom -
any explanation is still welcome - but I managed to switch to Jacoco and
Spotbugs. Fighting with maven is always a tad tedious and I still fear trying
to release... Migrating to Java 8 code can now resume.
