Property inheritance does exist?

[Graf László <gr...@datatrans.hu>]

Hello,

I try to port an existing ANT based build system to Maven.
I set in my root POM (A) the org.codehaus.mojo:properties-maven-plugin
to read all required properties from an existing property file.
That works fine. But when I create a new Maven module (B) where I set
its parent to be A, it complains that does not find the property file.

Of course, this property file was specified relative to the A project.

More than that, the org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-enforcer-plugin
says that the

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Re: Property inheritance does exist?

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

Please take a couple of minutes to read my answer to a very similar
question on stack overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14725197/reading-properties-file-from-pom-file-in-maven/14727072#14727072

It should hopefully make things a little clearer

-Stephen

On Thursday, 7 February 2013, Graf László wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I try to port an existing ANT based build system to Maven.
> I set in my root POM (A) the org.codehaus.mojo:properties-**maven-plugin
> to read all required properties from an existing property file.
> That works fine. But when I create a new Maven module (B) where I set
> its parent to be A, it complains that does not find the property file.
>
> Of course, this property file was specified relative to the A project.
>
> More than that, the org.apache.maven.plugins:**maven-enforcer-plugin
> says that the
>
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