Not possible, you may want to try Maven Profile ( http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html)
-D On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Yuhan Zhang <yuh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to keep multiple pom files in the same project with different > dependencies, so that I could build it with "mvn -f pom_2.xml". however, > since my project have sub modules, I'd like it to build using the pom_2.xml > file in module folder, too. but the build "mvn -f pom_2.xml" always goes > to pom.xml in the module folder. > > Here's how my project is structured: > > └── my-project > > ├── pom.xml > > ├── pom_2.xml > > └── my-module > > ├── pom.xml > > ├── pom_2.xml > > > Is there a way to specify in pom_2.xml on the name of the pom file to use > for module so that the module can also be built with pom_2.xml? or is this > impossible? > > > Thank you. > > Yuhan >