Dynamically provision global parent pom.xml

Question

How can one manage a common project parent pom.xml for multiple github organizations and projects, without continuously releasing it to some maven repository?

Answer 1

Now there are two maven components for that:

• extension: arkon-maven-extension
• plugin: flatten-maven-plugin

which can help resolve this issue.

Basic approach is to:

1. have single arkon repository with parent pom.xml, which is forever snapshot, and never released anywhere
2. use arkon-maven-extension to auto magically provision this parent pom into all projects which depend on it
3. use flatten-maven-plugin to erase parent information from the final project pom.xml used for deployment