Maven plugin for merging pom.xml files

Question

We have a parent Maven project (agregator) and some subsidiary projects:

parent/
  child1/
  child2/
  ...

Now we want to transform this structure into one project, and we need to combine the pom.xml files. The problem is that projects have very complex pom.xml files with many configurations (life cycle stages, platform settings, goals, etc.) and long dependency lists. Manual merging will be complex and error prone.

Does anyone know any Maven plugin for merging pom.xml files?

Answer 1

Perhaps the shade plugin might help: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/shade-mojo.html

Answer 2

, uber-pom, maven central https://github.com/raydac/uber-pom