I believe this problem has already been discussed in the maven community as I see a jira that was opened. I am not quite sure if there is a solution yet.
Here is the Jira http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-521?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.s ystem.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#action_42869 Problem : I want to update the version number of my application (ear with multiple jars and wars) at the parent level and propogate it to the children. I update the version element of the parent pom but that only create a new parent pom definition , but the children continue to build with old version. The only way I can force each child project version change is by modifying the version number in the parent element of the child pom's. Given that my parent project has about 10 sub projects (hence poms') what is the correct solution to do this. I tried using the ${project.version} attribute , but that does'nt help since the child pom's only use the version value defined in the parent ' version element of their pom. Thanks -satish
