如何在项目POM中继承外部Maven POM

Question

I'm looking at the Google Web Toolkit pom file at http://gwt-maven.googlecode.com/svn/docs/maven-googlewebtoolkit2-plugin/examples.html and it doesn't seem right to copy all of it into my project pom, as it would add too much unnecessary clutter.

Hence, am looking for a way I could store the GWT pom in an external file, and make reference to it in my project pom.

Anyone knows?

Answer 1

That project is deprecated, use gwt-maven-plugin from codehaus.

Hence, am looking for a way I could store the GWT pom in an external file, and make reference to it in my project pom.

That's multi-module-project setup, have a look.

Answer 2

Have you tried using the gwt Pom as the parent Pom for your project? Something like this in your pom.xml?

<parent>
  <groupId>com.totsp.gwt</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-gwt-sample-withouthome</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</parent>