Maven can't deploy from parent pom

jboss, maven, multi-module, pom.xml, wildfly

Solution

In the parent POM you need to add `<skip>true</skip>` to the configuration. Then set it to `false` for the your WAR POM.

Parent POM

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.1.Final</version>
    <configuration>
        <skip>true</skip>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

WAR POM

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
        <skip>false</skip>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Problem

i have just started building applications with Maven. One of my approaches is to build a multimodule web application. Working with Eclipse makes it very easy to build that kind of an application. So far everything works fine. The point at which i fail is the deployment. I am using Wildfly as my application Server and the deployment of the presentation layer works well. But when i want to deploy from the parent project i get this message: ``` Failed to execute goal org.wildfly.plugins:wildfly-maven-plugin:1.0.1.Final:deploy (default-cli) on project build: Error executing FORCE_DEPLOY: C:\Users\*****\Desktop\workspace\mvnexbook-examples-1.0\ch-multi\target\parent-0.8-SNAPSHOT.maven-project (No such file or directory) ``` This is very confusing. Does the deployment not take place from the previously installed files at the .m2/repository folder? Do i need a target directory in my parent folder? My parent pom file ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <parent> <groupId>org.sonatype.mavenbook.multi</groupId> <artifactId>simple-parent</artifactId> <version>0.8-SNAPSHOT</version> </parent> <artifactId>simple-webapp</artifactId> <packaging>war</packaging> <name>Multi Chapter Simple Web Application Project</name> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId> <artifactId>geronimo-servlet_2.4_spec</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.sonatype.mavenbook.multi</groupId> <artifactId>simple-weather</artifactId> <version>${project.version}</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <finalName>simple-webapp</finalName> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.wildfly.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>wildfly-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> ``` EDIT: I just tried it with jetty. Works fine. Why it's not working with Wildfly? EDIT2: I am using the simple-parent-project example from the sonatype book

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