Hi Robert, you can't use properties within the project's artifactId or the parent declaration (except for a few exceptions where it is expected to be provided by command line, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5576 )
I would recommend you to have a look at the maven-release layout on https://github.com/apache/maven-release. It is implementing the standard versioning scheme to deal with this with maven. Vincent 2015-10-06 22:01 GMT+02:00 Robert Patrick <robert.patr...@oracle.com>: > Hi, > > > > I am trying to use the release plugin with a new project where I want the > entire project to use a single version number (vs. one version number per > module). I have the single version number part working like this: > > > > 1.) In my parent pom, I do the following: > > <groupId>test</groupId> > > <artifactId>snapshots-parent</artifactId> > > <version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> > > <packaging>pom</packaging> > > > > <properties> > > <my-project-version>${project.version}</my-project-version> > > </properties> > > > > 2.) In my submodule POMs, I do the following: > > <artifactId>snapshots-consumer</artifactId> > > <packaging>jar</packaging> > > <name>snapshots-consumer</name> > > > > <parent> > > <groupId>test</groupId> > > <artifactId>snapshots-parent</artifactId> > > <version>${my-project-version}</version> > > <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath> > > </parent> > > > > <dependencies> > > <dependency> > > <groupId>${project.parent.groupId}</groupId> > > <artifactId>snapshots-util</artifactId> > > <version>${project.parent.version}</version> > > </dependency> > > </dependencies> > > > > This all works fine. Unfortunately, when I run the release plugin's > release:prepare goal, it replaces gthe parent version in all of my > submodule POMs with the hard-coded value: > > <parent> > > <groupId>test</groupId> > > <artifactId>snapshots-parent</artifactId> > > <version>1.0.1</version> > > <relativePath>../parent/pom.xml</relativePath> > > </parent> > > > > It should would be nice if I could figure out a way to get it to not do > this. > > > > Any thoughts? > > Robert > > >