Maven - Parent Pom - Child Inheritance

Question

I am attempting to make a maven parent pom setup where I don\'t have to declare any plugin information in my child pom, everything is taken from the parent pom.

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Answer 1

You can't avoid naming the plugin in the child pom, cause how should maven know which plugin are you using. The pluginManagement section is intended for defining the versions of plugin furthermore it's used to define a default configuration.

Answer 2

Instead of using pluginManagement, try using just <plugins> tag. It should be auto inherited. You may optionally override configuration in child pom. Check that by mvn help:effective-pom

Answer 3

<pluginManagement> section is intended to configure project builds that inherit from this one. However, this only configures plugins that are actually referenced within the plugins element in the children (so you have to explicitly specify them, as you indicated). See more here.

If you want to avoid this, you can put this information into <build> section like this:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-scm-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>1.0</version>
      <configuration>
        <...>
      </configuration>
      <executions>
        <...>
      </executions>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>