'parent.relativePath' points at my com.mycompany:MyProject instead of org.apache:apache - Why?

Question

What is true is that Solr project directory is inside MyProject parent directory (but there\'s no module or any maven relationship between the 2, just FS convenience). Do I

Answer 1

Add an empty to so that it resolves the parent pom from the repositories.

  
    org.apache
    apache
    8
    
  

Here is the relevant doc.

This feature is only for enhancing the development in a local checkout of that project. Set the value to an empty string in case you want to disable the feature and always resolve the parent POM from the repositories.
Default value is: ../pom.xml.