You can also declare your own properties in a properties section, for
example:
<properties>
<log4j.version>1.2.14</log4j.version>
</properties>
That you can then refer to with ${log4j.version} anywhere in your poms,
including the child poms. But there's no way to include a properties file
and read the information from there.
Kalle
PS. Note it's usually better to use dependencyManagement for version info,
but the above happens to be a live example for sharing version between
plugin- and dependencyManagement sections.
On 5/6/07, Martin Gilday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can use ${pom.version} in some circumstances. I think a parent tag
might be a case where you can't though.
----- Original message -----
From: "Howard Lewis Ship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Maven Users List" <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 08:30:45 -0700
Subject: Version number propogation
I have a project with multiple modules.
I'm keeping the version numbers synced.
This ends up with a lot of repetition of the version number:
<artifactId>tapestry-core</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>5.0.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
<parent>
<groupId>org.apache.tapestry</groupId>
<artifactId>tapestry-project</artifactId>
<version>5.0.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
<relativePath>../tapestry-project/pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
Worse yet, those same version numbers are creeping into documentation
and
into project archetypes.
How would I go about externalizing the version number so that it appears
just once? I'd love to have something like I used to do in Ant ... a
build.properties file that defines the version number.
Also, is there a general way to include POM properties inside APT
documents
and/or site.xml?
--
Howard M. Lewis Ship
TWD Consulting, Inc.
Independent J2EE / Open-Source Java Consultant
Creator and PMC Chair, Apache Tapestry
Creator, Apache HiveMind
Professional Tapestry training, mentoring, support
and project work. http://howardlewisship.com
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