Just put the version number in the parent and have the child poms refer to the version. Then always use the release plugin to update the version. There is a circular dependency when you try to lookup a parent by its version number when the version number is declared in the parent.
Hth, Nick Stolwijk ~Java Developer~ Iprofs BV. Claus Sluterweg 125 2012 WS Haarlem www.iprofs.nl On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Jeffrey N Hagelberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > We're trying to define a project structure where the version is defined in > the top level project and inherited by all of the sub-projects. This type > of structure would make it so that we only have to define the version number > in one place and allow us to maintain one maven repository with all of the > versions of our project in it. I've attached what we have right now. What > we've basically done is defined a variable in the top level pom.xml called > "mmi.version" and then referenced that everywhere we need a version. This > has worked up to a point. The problem I'm seeing occurs when it is trying > to obtain the plugin "mmi-xmeta-installer-plugin" from the local maven > repository. It succeeds in obtaining the plugin itself from the local maven > repository. However, when it tries to get the artifacts for the parent > project (mmi_plugins), it dies with the following error: > > Cannot find parent: com.ibm.mmi:mmi_plugins for project: > null:mmi-xmeta-installer-plugin:maven-plugin:null for project > null:mmi-xmeta-installer-plugin:maven-plugin:null > > I guess my first question is whether anyone has been able to to successfully > get a child project to inherit the version of its parent project and if so, > how they made it work. What we have defined is a little wierd, since we're > attempting to use a variable defined in the parent pom.xml to resolve the > parent itself. That may be the root cause of this error. However, it's the > best we have been able to do so far. We do not want to have to duplicate > the version in all of our pom.xmls. > > Thanks for any help you can provide. > > -Jeff > > > > Jeffrey Hagelberg, Software Engineer > XMeta Development > IBM Software Group > Phone: 978-899-2055 T/L:276-2055) > Email:[email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
