Re: maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory

Howdy,

Niels is right, and do use Maven 3.9 and do have .mvn directory (even
with a placeholder, or with mvn wrapper) as that is simplest and
cleanest, plus, maven4 will want that anyway.

T



On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM Nils Breunese <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Justin Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > I'm using maven 4.0.0-rc-5 and I'm trying to reference the very root of my
> > multimodule project.  I though maven.multiModuleProjectDirectory was that
> > answer but it always resolves to the current module's path.  in
> > <pluginMgmt> in the root, I'm trying to reference config files in a folder
> > off the root of the overall project without have to hand code relative
> > paths in every module.  How is one supposed to achieve this?  Is it even
> > possible?
>
> You should be able to use ${project.rootDirectory} if you have a .mvn directory under your multimodule project’s root, or alternatively set the root attribute in your parent POM to true (requires POM model 4.1.0, so can only be used with Maven 4). See this section in the ‘Migrate to Maven 4’ documentation: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-migration-to-mvn4.html#Define_project.27s_root_directory
>
> Nils.
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