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 may have the packaging type and/or version id not matching. I got the same error as you but played around with the packaging type and got it to work. Try the following.

The following is fragment of the parent pom.xml. The packaging type is "pom". I don't have any code for the parent app, only a common pom.xml for sharing:

   ... 
    com.mycompany.app
    parent
    ${app.version}
    pom

Child's pom.xml. It is a webapp so packaging type is "war":

  com.mycompany.app
  parent
  ${app.version}
  ../parent/pom.xml
  war