Maven2 - problem with pluginManagement and parent-child relationship

Question

from maven documentation

pluginManagement: is an element that is seen along side plugins. Plugin Management contains plugin elements in much the same

Answer 1

In parent pom you should configure executions with declared but don't declare . Then in the child pom you'll declare:

  some-plugin
  
    
      execution-id
      partcular-phase
    
  

The plugin won't be executed until you define a phase in the child pom. Thus you'll need to explicitly bind executions to phases in every child pom (or in the middle of hierarchy), but you won't need to copy-paste configuration of these executions.

Note, that lots of plugins have Default Phase, e.g. Enforcer Plugin is bound to validate by default. Even if you don't bind plugin to a phase explicitly, it will be bound anyway and thus the plugin will be executed. To overcome this, use non-existing phase in your parent:

  execution-id
  some-goal
  none