Let`s say we have 2 branches Infrastructure and Web. The project web-core depends on infra-persist. We want to be able to manage the versions of the infra-persist and at the same time have a default value of 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT if no version is specified.
Infrastructure infra-parent infra-persist and others Web web-parent web-core and others In web-core I have <artifactId>web-core</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <version>${web.core.version}</version> <parent> <groupId>com.abc.xyz</groupId> <relativePath>../web-parent/pom.xml</relativePath> <artifactId>web-parent</artifactId> <version>${web.parent.version}</version> </parent> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>com.abc.xyz</groupId> <artifactId>infra-persist</artifactId> <version>${infra.persist.version}</version> </dependency> In web-parent I have <version>${web.parent.version}</version> <description>Holds common settings</description> <properties> <web.parent.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</web.parent.version> <web.core.version>${web.parent.version}</web.core.version> <infra.parent.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</infra.parent.version> <infra.persist.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</infra.persist.version> </properties> <modules> <module>../web-core</module> <!-- and others --> </modules> In infra-persist I have : <artifactId>infra-persist</artifactId> <version>${infra.persist.version}<version> <parent> <groupId>com.abc.xyz</groupId> <relativePath>../infra-parent/pom.xml</relativePath> <artifactId>infra-parent</artifactId> <!-- Even though the parent version is specified as a property in the current pom maven doesn't take it into account --> <version>${infra.parent.version}</version> </parent> In infra-parent I have : <artifactId>infra-parent</artifactId> <version>${infra.parent.version}</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> <properties> <infra.parent.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</infra.parent.version> <infra.persist.version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</infra.persist.version> </properties> <modules> <module>../infra-persist</module> </modules> My build of infra started from infra-parent with mvn clean install works. My build of we started from web-parent with mvn clean install fails with [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building WEB interface [INFO] task-segment: [clean, install] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [clean:clean] [INFO] Deleting directory C:\4\Web\web-core\target [INFO] [resources:resources] [INFO] Using default encoding to copy filtered resources. Downloading: http://com.abc.xyz:8080/maven-proxy-webapp/repository/com/abc/xyz/infra-parent/${infra.parent.version}/infra-parent-${infra.parent.version}.pom [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. The only way I can make it work is if i hardcode in infra-persist <artifactId>infra-persist</artifactId> <version>${infra.persist.version}<version> <parent> <groupId>com.abc.xyz</groupId> <relativePath>../infra-parent/pom.xml</relativePath> <artifactId>infra-parent</artifactId> <!-- Even though the parent version is specified as a property in the current pom maven doesn't take it into account --> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> Thank you for all your hints and ideas, Lucian -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/dependency-not-found---fails-to-replace-the-version-with-the-property-for-parent-pom-tp21488666p21488666.html Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org