store file in top parent pom, along with property pointing to it, and ref that property in child poms

My project uses a small hierarchy of parent poms. I believe it would be a good idea to set my Sonar connection settings in the top parent pom, instead of telling all the users to add a certain set of settings to their ~/.m2/settings.xml. In addition, we're using the sonar.secretKeyPath

Re: store file in top parent pom, along with property pointing to it, and ref that property in child poms

Hi David, My problem is that I can't figure out how to set a path property that is relative to the top parent A solution I have used is to define a ${project.rootdir} property; see: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8848129 https://github.com/imagej/imagej/commit/d171f290 Or you could try

Re: store file in top parent pom, along with property pointing to it, and ref that property in child poms

I really need a statically-defined property that references ${basedir}, so when child poms reference it, it doesn't evaluate it dynamically. I think the right solution to this class of problems utilizes the remote-resources plugin or dependency:unpack instead of the approach you are currently

RE: store file in top parent pom, along with property pointing to it, and ref that property in child poms

-Original Message- From: KARR, DAVID Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:31 AM To: Maven Users List Subject: store file in top parent pom, along with property pointing to it, and ref that property in child poms My project uses a small hierarchy of parent poms. I believe it would be