I've recently run into the same situation. I think the reason why you are not able to resolve the property value is that in order to do so, the parent POM must be located (because that is where the property is defined). You can't refer to that property in the <parent> element. If you simply changed the <parent> element to use an explicit version number, the parent pom would be located and loaded, the variable resolved, and you could then use it in other parts of your child pom (including defining the version number of your child artifact). I'm doing this now.
Now, you may be thinking the same thing I was thinking -- that this means you cannot define the parent version number in ONE place (the parent pom) and refer it via a property in all places in child poms. This appears to be the case and I consider it a limitation of Maven. It would appear that if you update the parent pom version number, you are forced to edit all the child poms to use that version number explicitly -- it can't be simply in one place. -- Eric -----Original Message----- From: Morgovsky, Alexander (US - Glen Mills) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 8:12 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Inherited property resolution I have a parent project which defines a test_version property, and a child project which attempts to this property, which is the version of the application in this case. However, when doing a build, the test_version property of the parent element does not get resolved. I get this error. May someone please help me with this scenario? Thanks in advance for your help. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] FATAL ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Failed to resolve artifact. GroupId: test ArtifactId: test Version: ${test_version} Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository test:test:pom:${test_version} [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Trace org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Cannot find parent: test:test for projec t: test_sub_a:test_sub_a:pom:${test_version} Parent project test: <project> <artifactId>test</artifactId> <groupId>test</groupId> <version>1.0.0</version> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <modules> <module>test_sub_a</module> </modules> <packaging>pom</packaging> <properties> <test_version>1.0.0</test_version> </properties> </project> Child project test_sub_a: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project> <artifactId>test_sub_a</artifactId> <groupId>test_sub_a</groupId> <version>${test_version}</version> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>test</groupId> <artifactId>test</artifactId> <version>${test_version}</version> </parent> <packaging>pom</packaging> </project> This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. [v.E.1] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
