Question

I want to make my first release of a multi-module maven project using the maven release plugin. I´m facing a problem in the release:prepare step because I have SNAPSHOT dependencies.

<project ...> 

   <parent>
      <artifactId>project</artifactId>
      <groupId>ccc.aaa.bbb</groupId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
   </parent>

  <artifactId>common</artifactId>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <name>common</name>

  <modules>
     <module>daoModule</module>
     <module>configModule</module>
     <module>exceptionModule</module>
  </modules>

   <scm>
     ...    
   </scm>
   <distributionManagement>
       <repository>...</repository>
       <snapshotRepository>...</snapshotRepository>
   </distributionManagement>
</project>

And the modules extend this as its parent:

<project ...>
<parent>
   <artifactId>common</artifactId>
   <groupId>ccc.aaa.bbb</groupId>
   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>

<artifactId>exceptionModule</artifactId>
  <name>exceptionModule</name>

<build>
        ...

The plugin changes the the version of the artifact 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT to a release version 0.0.1 , and creates the new snapshot version id 0.0.2-SNAPSHOT.

¿Is there any way to change automatically the version of the parents from 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT to 0.0.1 – the release that is going to be created-?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It should work when doing release:prepare from the aggregator project level that contains all the modules you’re interested in. So your common, project artifacts and all the modules should be released at once. Also look at autoVersionSubmodules switch to do a little less typing.