You can try the update-child-modules goal of the versions-maven-plugin. http://mojo.codehaus.org/versions-maven-plugin/usage.html Ondřej Žižka wrote: > 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 >