You can create a separate pom that only includes the your 5 modules to build, 
don't use the parent pom to do the reactor build.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Fox [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:31 PM
To: Maven Users List
Subject: Re: Reactor - skip parent project build

You can't. The parent will always run first in a reactor before
anything that inherits from it.

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:03 PM, droidin.net <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I have a parent POM which defines 5 modules (5 subprojects). Since each
> module is executed in exactly the same way I pull <profile><build> section
> into the parent POM to get rid of the duplicate code. Now - if I execute
> build individually from each module it works, however if I want to build all
> modules at once and move to the parent directory I got error since the very
> first thing Maven tries to execute is the parent project itself:
>
>>mvn package -P release
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> [INFO] Reactor build order:
> [INFO]   DWD Parent project
> [INFO]   Projects
>
> After that build fails because exec plugin tries to execute something that
> is not there. Looking at the output it is pretty obvious that reactor plugin
> is driving the build but how can I configure reactor to skip the parent?
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