Maven with an explicit finalName won't work properly

Question

1. Background

My maven project has a lot of modules and submodules with jars and wars and everything works. I also can dep

Answer 1

This is issue with attribute inheritance.
Try to use ${parent.name} instead of ${project.parent.name}.
Look at: Project name declared in parent POM isn't expanded in a module filtered web.xml.

---UPDATE---

Benjamin Bentmann (maven committier) said: "In general though, expressions of the form ${project.parent.*} are a bad practice as they rely on a certain build state and do not generally work throughout the POM, giving rise to surprises".

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MNG-5126?jql=text%20~%20%22parent%20name%22

Maybe you should consider is using ${project.parent.*} is a good way.