> By the way, do you know any good and well managed example of a multi-module > (Apache) project with different versions/life cycles for each module?
Not, I think, in the sense that you mean. All my experience concerns two categories of project: monoliths, like CXF, and ant farms, like Maven. You can model CXF as one big build tree with many modules that are released on a completely locked lifecycle. Maven, on the other hand, has 27 independently-release items. They are only and always released independently. No one ever makes a release of maven-and-its-plugins. The Maven PMC makes releases of all the different items, each on their own schedule. So no one is ever trying to make a single artifact with all the sources of all of them, it wouldn't make sense. It seems to me that Jena wants to be more maven-like than CXF-like.
