Maven - running a delegate plugin in a submodule

Question

I have superuser versions, plugin and dependency definitions for its 2 child submodules: one for webapp (works with jetty: run), the other for DB migration ("works" with Liquibase: update).

This works great while I changed the directory to one of the submodules. However, when I run jetty: run or Liquibase: update the parent POM, I would like the plugin to be "forwarded" to the appropriate submodule.

Do you have any ideas, is it possible to achieve such a goal?

Thanks in advance,

Rolf

PS: sorry for the latest update

PARENT POM

<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <modules> <module>webapp</module> <module>db-migrations</module> </modules> <!-- [...] --> <pluginManagement> <!-- [...] --> <plugins> <!-- JETTY --> <plugin> <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> <version>${jetty-plugin.version}</version> <configuration> <contextPath>/</contextPath> <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds> <connectors> <connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector"> <port>9999</port> <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime> </connector> </connectors> </configuration> </plugin> <!-- LIQUIBASE --> <plugin> <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId> <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>${liquibase.version}</version> <configuration> <changeLogFile>src/main/resources/tv/esporx/master.xml</changeLogFile> <propertyFile>${env.file}</propertyFile> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <phase>process-resources</phase> <goals> <goal>updateSQL</goal> <goal>update</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </pluginManagement> </project> 

MIGRATION DB

 <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <!-- [...] --> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>mysql</groupId> <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId> <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> 

Webapp

 <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <!-- [...] --> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> 

Answer 1

If you did the mvn installation before the other steps, you can use

 mvn -pl ChildModule lifecycle 

from the root level of your project.