Maven multiple parent-child hierarchy -

i have project built in next manner: parent module named production, holds 2 modules named apps , libs, each of them holds various projects.

production     apps        common        utils     libs        api        dev 

production pom

<groupid>com.prod</groupid> <packaging>pom</packaging> <modules>     <module>libs</module>     <module>apps</module> </modules> 

apps pom

 <parent>     <groupid>com.prod</groupid>     <artifactid>apps</artifactid> </parent>   <modules>     <module>common</module>     <module>utild</module> </modules> 

where packaging of production, apps , libs pom. while packaging rest war/jar.

when try run mvn install on production (or other module/project) non-resolvable parent pom: failure find

only when run mvn install -n on production, apps , libs, can start working projects.

is there better way accomplish successful modules , projects alignment without running mvn install -n? pom definition or other solution?

without seeing poms, guessing missing <module> elements naming children in production, apps , libs poms.

once have that, if else in order, can build production folder mvn install , have reactor figure out right order build various modules are, subject inter-module dependencies. note <module> elements relative paths child projects, not gav of project.

see http://books.sonatype.com/mvnex-book/reference/multimodule.html more information proper setup multi-module projects.