Maven module using spring-boot

Question

I like to configure my applications in maven by creating modules like;

com.app
example-app
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Answer 1

Another alternative, is to include in the parent pom, the parent declaration for spring boot, as shown in this post

example-app pom.xml:

    
        org.springframework.boot
        spring-boot-starter-parent
        1.2.5.RELEASE
    
    4.0.0
    // rest of the example-app pom declarations

After that, in the modules poms (app-web, app-impl, etc.), you declare example-app as parent, but now you can include the starter dependencies as you would normally do in a regular project.

app-web pom.xml:

    
        org.demo
        example-app
        1.0-SNAPSHOT
    
    4.0.0
    app-web
    app-web
    1.0-SNAPSHOT 
    war

    
        
            org.demo
            app-api
            1.0-SNAPSHOT 
        
        
            org.demo
            app-impl
            1.0-SNAPSHOT 
        
        
            org.springframework.boot
            spring-boot-starter-web
        
        
            org.springframework.boot
            spring-boot-starter-tomcat
            provided
        
    
    // rest of the app-web pom declarations

Regarding version management, what i used in these examples aren't exactly the best practices, but since is out of the scope of the question i skipped dependencyManagement and parent properties usage.

Also, if there is a starter that is used in every module, you can declare the dependency in the parent pom and then all the modules will inherit it (for example spring-boot-starter-test)