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Hendy Irawan commented on MNG-1012: ----------------------------------- I agree with David. As it stands now, it's pretty annoying and unnecessary. The Parent POM coordinates are only used in repositories, but not in project *builds*. Please distinguish those two use cases. > <parent> with only <relativePath> doesn't work > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: MNG-1012 > URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1012 > Project: Maven 2 & 3 > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 2.0-beta-1 > Reporter: Hao Chen > > Use the following in child pom.xml > <parent> > <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath> > </parent> > Got error: > [INFO] Reason: Missing groupId element from parent element > Why do we need groupId, artifactId, and version? These data are already > contained in ../pom.xml. It should work the same as Maven 1.0 <extends>. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://jira.codehaus.org/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira