Hi, As suggestion, this plugin could have a goal that set's the 'root parent dir', I see this pretty useful for sharing plugin configuration based in properties files located in the main parent in a multi module projets. There is a lot of anxiety of it around web as can be seen:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012402/maven2-property-that-indicates-the-parent-directory <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1012402/maven2-property-that-indicates-the-parent-directory> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3084629/finding-the-root-directory-of-a-multi-module-maven-reactor-project <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3084629/finding-the-root-directory-of-a-multi-module-maven-reactor-project> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8700097/how-to-get-the-super-pom-basedir-in-a-child-module-pom <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8700097/how-to-get-the-super-pom-basedir-in-a-child-module-pom> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4146638/maven-variable-for-reactor-root <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4146638/maven-variable-for-reactor-root> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231561/how-to-share-common-properties-among-several-maven-projects/1265428#1265428 <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1231561/how-to-share-common-properties-among-several-maven-projects/1265428#1265428> Thanks! -- View this message in context: http://mojo.10943.n7.nabble.com/Build-Helper-Maven-Plugin-Build-MetaData-Maven-Plugin-tp39569p39681.html Sent from the Developer mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email