No, this is not a must... You can link either way if you want, but there's several things you have to consider:
If you build the 'parent' and it does not contain the 'modules'-tag, the children DO NOT get build. Just play around with it a bit, Maven is very flexible in this way. I do however believe it is described in the documentation, and pretty extensive if I recall correctly... On Wednesday 14 November 2007 23:51, Aaron Zeckoski wrote: > Is the 2-way parent/module dependency actually the right way to link > children and parent POMs? This is what we currently have: > > The parent includes definition of a module (or group of modules) like so: > ... > <groupId>org.sakaiproject</groupId> > <artifactId>base</artifactId> > <packaging>pom</packaging> > ... > <modules> > <module>alias</module> > </modules> > ... > > Then the child defines a parent like so: > ... > <parent> > <artifactId>base</artifactId> > <groupId>org.sakaiproject</groupId> > <version>M2</version> > <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath> > </parent> > ... > > As a result, we end up with this 2-way linkage bewteen these POMs > which ends up not being very flexible since all of the POMs have to > know about each other. > > This seems to be what the docs indicate but I might misunderstand. Are > we doing something dumb here? > > Sample parent here: > https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/kernel/pom.xml Sample child > here: > https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/caret/kernel/alias/pom.xml > > Thanks for the help! > -AZ -- Roland Asmann CFC Informationssysteme Entwicklungsgesellschaft m.b.H Bäckerstrasse 1/2/7 A-1010 Wien FN 266155f, Handelsgericht Wien Tel.: +43/1/513 88 77 - 27 Fax.: +43/1/513 88 62 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.cfc.at --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
