Warning on using project.parent.version as the version of a module in Maven 3

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I’m curious to know what the real problem with tying a module’s version to the parent version is, if any? Or is this a case of a general warning when any expression, regardless of whether it’s project.parent.version, is used for the version element.

Well, that would be easy to test. Because I was curious, I just did it for you using the following pom:

<project>
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <parent>
    <artifactId>parent</artifactId>
    <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  </parent>
  <groupId>com.mycompany</groupId>
  <artifactId>module</artifactId>
  <version>${myversion}</version>
  <name>module</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <properties>
    <myversion>1.0-SNAPSHOT</myversion>
  </properties>
  ...
</project>

And maven is indeed complaining:

[WARNING] 'version' contains an expression but should be a constant. @ com.mycompany:module:${myversion}, /home/pascal/Projects/maven-maven3-testcase/module/pom.xml

To be honest, I think that maven is right here, it doesn’t make much sense to use a property for the <version> element (at least not for project.version) and it’s nice to have maven complaining about it.

And if you want to use the parent pom version in sub-modules, just remove the <version> tag from the child poms, they will inherit the version from the parent. What you are currently doing is unnecessary.

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