> 11) don't mix inheritance and aggregation. that means a parent pom NEVER ever > has modules, if you think about the concept for a minute - or longer - there > will be a moment of enlightenment > > > structure of the generated archetype. > > So, I'm curious as to why you would say not to do this. >
Yeah, me too! First, I had a parent pom, and a "all-projects-pom" which was just and only a multimodule pom. But then you had even one more pom, and we decided to put the multimodule stuff right into the parent pom. using the "-N" flag allows to simply work (package, install, deploy, site...) with the parent pom, while without you may easily work(package, install, deploy, site...) on all projects at once. Thanks, Peter
