Maven2 cannot find parent from relative path

Question

I\'m trying to use Maven2 but my child projects cannot find the parent project.

Directory structure is as follows:

--parent
  --pom.xml
--child
  --p         


        

Answer 1

You can't use a property for the parent version - it must match. At the moment this is required for the build to be reproducible at a later date. A number of people are tracking this on issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-624