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Maven project version inheritance – do I have to specify the parent version?

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I have two projects: Parent project: A, Sub project: B A/pom.xml: <groupId>com.dummy.bla</groupId> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>pom</packaging> And in B/pom.xml, I have: <parent> <groupId>com.dummy.bla</groupId> <artifactId>parent</artifactId> <version>0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <groupId>com.dummy.bla.sub</groupId> <artifactId>kid</artifactId> I want B to inherit the version from parent, so the only place in my case I need to put 0.1-SNAPSHOT is A/pom.xml. But if i remove the … Read more

Specifying Java version in maven – differences between properties and compiler plugin

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I’m not very experienced with Maven and while experimenting with multi-module project I started wondering how can I specify Java version for all my child modules in parent Maven pom. Until today I was using just: <properties> <java.version>1.8</java.version> </properties> …but when researching I found that you can also specify Java version in Maven compiler plugin, … Read more

Maven plugins can not be found in IntelliJ

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After updating IntelliJ from version 12 to 13, the following Maven-related plugins cannot be resolved: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1 org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin When using IntelliJ 12, these were not in the plugins list. Somehow they’ve been added after the update and now IntelliJ complains they cannot be found. Where can I remove these plugins from the list OR … Read more