You can try the update-child-modules goal of the versions-maven-plugin.
Hi,
I have a multi-module Maven project, some modules again have modules,
plus there are some subdirs with "child" artifact.
=== What's the best way to change a version of certain artifact in the
whole tree? ===
This was discussed some time ago on some mailing list, and IIRC, the
unspoken conclusion was to use something like
perl -pi -e 's/1.1.0.GA-SNAPSHOT/1.1.0.GA-HTMLUnit26/g' `find . -name
pom.xml`
See
http://community.jboss.org/wiki/DavidsMavenReleaseProcess
But there's a danger of replacing a version for some other artifact. I
don't want to create some crazy bash script to handle this case. XSLT
would help.
=== But first - is there some Maven plugin or tool to do this? (EXCEPT
MAVEN RELEASE PLUGIN, see the discussion.) ===
Thanks for tips,
Ondra