Building project dependencies under Maven Eclipse plugin

[Chris von See]

I have an application that is comprised of three Maven projects: a  
server, a webapp and a common JAR.  All three of these have the same  
parent POM, and the server and webapp have the appropriate  
dependencies defined.  When I execute "mvn clean install" on the  
parent POM from the command line everything gets built in the correct  
order and with no problems, so I'm pretty comfortable that the POMs  
are set up correctly.

Now, I'd like to use the Maven Eclipse plugin and the Maven "exec- 
maven-plugin' with the exec:java goal to run and debug a child project  
under Eclipse.  As I understand it, I need to set the working  
directory of the Eclipse debug configuration to the base directory of  
the child project (the server, for example) so that the Maven Eclipse  
plugin will find the child project's POM.  However, when I do this  
then the Maven Eclipse plugin doesn't rebuild any of the other child  
projects under that parent if changes are made to their sources during  
the debugging session.  Given what I've read of Maven this seems to  
make sense, but I'm wondering if there's a way to tell the Maven  
Eclipse plugin to execute the clean/install against the parent's POM  
before running the child project using exec-maven-plugin.  Is this  
possible? and if so, what do I need to do?


Thanks
Chris