No it doesn't necessarily. We use parent poms all the time, but without the module feature.
-----Original Message----- From: Dean Schulze [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 6:01 PM To: Maven Users List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Is there a way to make mvn default to Java 8? That means making every new project a module of that parent. Ugh. On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Bernd Eckenfels <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry when this answer is an over-simplification, but you can just > configure it in a common parent. This is a quite typical case why you > want shared company/team/product/buildenv parents. > > Gruss > Bernd > -- > http://bernd.eckenfels.net > > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:51 PM +0100, "Dean Schulze" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to avoid having to add > > > 1.8 > 1.8 > > > to every pom.xml. Is there a global setting I can set in mvn to make > Java > 8 the default so I don't have to add this to every pom.xml? > > > > > >
