How are you overriding it? With -Dtest.version=5 ? I'm assuming that you don't have that value in your settings.xml file.
Are you getting the correct dependency when you run: mvn help:effective-pom -Dtest.version=5 Jim On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Arul Anand S P <[email protected]>wrote: > hi all, > > I am having a property named test.version in parent pom.xml > > <properties> > <test.version>8</test.version> > </properties> > > and I have a the below entry in child pom.xml > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>com.test.data</groupId> > <artifactId>UtilLibrary</artifactId> > <version>${test.version}</version> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > > While executing the release:prepare from the command prompt I am > over-riding > the value of the property test.version to 5 > But the child pom.xml still takes the value 8 instead of 5 and is trying to > download the file UtilLibrary-8.jar instead of UtilLibrary-5.jar > > Please help in resolving this >
