Struggling with Maven parent/child plugin configuration inheritance
inheritance, maven, plugins
Solution
Ok, I think I have it. The answer, in my case, relates to what you specified - I did need the tag. However the solution was in the tag; by binding it to a non-phase, it does execute. This I knew. What I discovered is that the had to match in order for it to override. Thus, the config never gets parsed and doesn't matter.
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- Main declaration of the plugin -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.9.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<!--This must be named-->
<id>checkstyle</id>
<phase>compile</phase>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration...>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<!-- Uses the default config -->
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<!--This matches and thus overrides-->
<id>checkstyle</id>
<phase>none</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
Problem
I'm trying to write a parent pom, and I have a plugin defined, but I need to change the config for all inherited instances. So, I can put some configuration in the `<pluginManagement>` definition, and I can override it in the `<plugin>`, but how do I get the children to default back to the `<pluginManagement>` version? ``` <build> <pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.9.1</version> <executions...> <configuration> <configLocation> (used by all children) </configLocation> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </pluginManagement> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <configLocation> (unique to the parent) </configLocation> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> <build> ``` So, what happens is the children continue to show the parent's config.