What does the parent tag in Maven pom represent?

Question

E.g.:

    mycompany.trade.com
    mycompany.trade.
    1.1.         


        

Answer 1

The common dependencies,Properties,constants etc can be definded in central parent project pom.xml

The main important thing is the parent project cannot be distributed and it looks more similar like normal pom.xml except it packaging tag

    com.company.demo
    MavenInheritance
    0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
    pom

The child now able to inherit this using

   
        com.company.demo
        MavenInheritance
        0.0.1-SNAPSHOT