M2 Inherit properties across all subprojects

[javed mandary]

Hi,
     in a multi-project M2 application is there a way to define some global
properties e.g tomcat.home , tomcat.deploy.dir ,etc.. which could be
inherited by all sub-projects .

I tried adding my property values inside a properties tag in my POM :

e.g

<properties>
  <tomcat.home>c:/devtools/tomcat</tomcat.home>
</properties>

But this does not seem to be working.

Any ideas?

thanks,
    Javed