Maven version with a property

Question

I have big Maven (Tycho) project witch about 400 plug-ins.

We have specified version of application in each POM file.

Is there a way how to specify the versi

Answer 1

With a Maven version of 3.5 or higher, you should be able to use a placeholder (e.g. ${revision}) in the parent section and inside the rest of the pom, you can use ${project.version}.

Actually, you can also omit project properties outside of parent which are the same, as they will be inherited. The result would look something like this:

    
    build.parent
    company
    ../build.parent/pom.xml
    ${revision}  
    

    4.0.0
    artifact
    
    eclipse-plugin

    ...

For more information, especially on how to resolve the placeholder during publishing, see Maven CI Friendly Versions | Multi Module Setup.