In Maven How to build the dependent projects that are added as the dependencies in the main project when building the main project?

Question

I have 3 independent projects in my main project. When I want to add the dependencies of these projects to main project, then first I am building the dependent projects and then finally building the main project. Is there is a way to build the dependent projects at the time of building the main project?

Answer 1

Sure, use a multi-module project

<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>
  <groupId>com.company</groupId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <artifactId>someName</artifactId>
  <name>someName</name>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>
  <modules>
    <module>dependentProject1</module>
    <module>dependentProject2</module>
    <module>mainProject</module>
  </modules>
</project>