Maven2 inheritance

Question

If I have a parent pom and want to inherit this to several projects. I usually do this by adding in top of the project ... . What I do

Answer 1

Automatic Parent versioning (i.e. omission of the tag) is a contentious issue in the Maven space. There is a defect logged against it. For now, it is being considered as a fix or improvement in the 2.1 version branch,