Document how parent-child POM relationships, <modules/>, and 
<parent><relativePath/> works
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         Key: MNG-2026
         URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2026
     Project: Maven 2
        Type: Task

  Components: Documentation:  General  
    Reporter: John Casey
     Fix For: documentation


Create a document that will describe how POMs can be related to one another in 
a multimodule build. Specifically, document:

* The parent-child relationship - how is this manifest in the POMs
* How does the <modules/> section work
* How does the <relativePath/> element of the <parent/> section work...and what 
is required in the <parent/> section?
* How to install ONLY the parent POM for a multimodule setup (mvn -N pom.xml at 
the top level)
* How to build an entire multimodule setup from one command (tie all of this 
together into a working example)

Related to this, but in another document, should be a list of things that are 
inherited (could be a link to somewhere else, if this documentation exists in 
other places). Also, the algorithm used to merge inherited and local POM 
sections should be in this other document.

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