Please take a couple of minutes to read my answer to a very similar question on stack overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14725197/reading-properties-file-from-pom-file-in-maven/14727072#14727072 It should hopefully make things a little clearer -Stephen On Thursday, 7 February 2013, Graf László wrote: > Hello, > > I try to port an existing ANT based build system to Maven. > I set in my root POM (A) the org.codehaus.mojo:properties-**maven-plugin > to read all required properties from an existing property file. > That works fine. But when I create a new Maven module (B) where I set > its parent to be A, it complains that does not find the property file. > > Of course, this property file was specified relative to the A project. > > More than that, the org.apache.maven.plugins:**maven-enforcer-plugin > says that the > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
