multi module maven project with parent pom and svn layout

Question

I currently have about 16 projects that I build with maven that get deployed to the same application server that make up something like a \"portal\". I have built a parent p

Answer 1

A variation to JohnS's approach would be to use svn:externals to hook appropriate trunk/tags/branches of your subprojects to the appropriate trunk/tag/branch of your parent project. In this way checking out one variant of your parent would pull out all the right version of the other projects.

This makes sense only if it's reasonable to checkout all your projects together.

Answer 2

You can use following layout:

+parent-project
  pom.xml
+child-project-1
  pom.xml
+child-project-2
  pom.xml

In parent project pom add:

<modules>
    <module>../child-project-1</module>
    <module>../child-project-2</module>
</modules>

In children projects pom add:

<parent>
    <artifactId><!-- parent artifactId --></artifactId>
    <groupId><!-- parent groupdId --></groupId>
    <version><!-- parent version --></version>
    <relativePath>../parent-project</relativePath>
</parent>

Children Projects can optionally be dependent.

Following links may also help:

• http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html
• Maven parent pom vs modules pom