Hello!
I think there's a minor doc flaw in the pom introduction page: http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-pom.html#Example_2 The relativePath attribute in the second example should begin with ../ (not with .../): <project> <parent> <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId> <artifactId>my-app</artifactId> <version>1</version> <relativePath>.../parent/pom.xml</relativePath> </parent> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <artifactId>my-module</artifactId> </project> -- Best Regards Thank you for maven!