Maven - release snapshot dependencies

Question

So I currently have 2 projects, lets call them ProjectA, and ProjectB. ProjectA and ProjectB should be released independently of each other. They both use a shared project called ProjectCommon.

<groupId>group</groupId>
<artifactId>ProjectA</artifactId>
<version>0.0.10-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>group</groupId>
        <artifactId>ProjectCommon</artifactId>
        <version>0.0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Currently If I want to realease ProjectA, I first have to release ProjectCommon, and update the version in ProjectA pom.xml.

Is there a way to automate this? I have been looking at versions:use-latest-releases plugin but I cant get it to work if ProjectCommon is currently using a snapshot. I just get "cant release project due to unreleased dependencies"

Thanks

Answer 1

You should always use a released version of ProjectCommon in the other projects, that way you have 2 scenarios.

1) You make changes in ProjectCommon and you release it then you update the dependency in ProjectA and ProjectB

2) You make changes in ProjectA and you only release ProjectA