No, you only need to point to an installed parent project, it does not have to be an aggregator.
Gruss Bernd -- http://bernd.eckenfels.net On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:00 PM +0100, "Dean Schulze" <dean.w.schu...@gmail.com> wrote: That means making every new project a module of that parent. Ugh. On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Sorry when this answer is an over-simplification, but you can just > configure it in a common parent. This is a quite typical case why you want > shared company/team/product/buildenv parents. > > Gruss > Bernd > -- > http://bernd.eckenfels.net > > > > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 5:51 PM +0100, "Dean Schulze" < > dean.w.schu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I would like to avoid having to add > > > 1.8 > 1.8 > > > to every pom.xml. Is there a global setting I can set in mvn to make Java > 8 the default so I don't have to add this to every pom.xml? > > > > > >