How to use POMs as a dependency in Maven?

Question

Is there a way to add a pom type dependency to my POM and get all its modules?

JavaMail is a good example. Maven Central Repo has a parent POM called:

Answer 1

As someone already wrote above : You can't do it . But this is what i did and it worked . Lets assume you have some pom file (JavaMail in your example) with following :

pom

And You want copy all jars mentioned in this pom to some place . This is what i did and it is fast working solution
Open original pom and just copy-paste all dependencies section from original pom file to your new pom as is . Of course use maven dependency plugin to copy all .