Is there a way to perform "mvn clean install" on multiple separate modules, when all the modules have different parents which can't be altered?

Question

There's project with different modules and dependencies and all of them are needed to be mvn clean installed one by one in a particular sequence.And they have different parents and that can't be changed. Now how can I automate this process with maven reactor.So just by performing "mvn clean install" just once will perform the same operation on all the modules in the given sequence .

Answer 1

Maybe you can Work with Multiple Modules https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-multiple-modules.html

Answer 2

You can create a new parent of all other parents, this parent will be projects aggregator for all the other modules (the other parents), in that new parent you can order the modules as you want

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>build-all</groupId>
    <artifactId>build-all</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>

    <modules>
        <module>../proj1/pom.xml </module>
        <module>../proj2/pom.xml </module>
        .
        .

    </modules>

</project>