title: Is there a way to cascade the version of a parent pom?
body: <p>I have a root pom.xml that acts as a parent for several child pom.xml files, which is great if you have one or two child pom.xml files. I am working on a project that has 50+ child pom.xml files, and several releases going on at once. Everything is great until I need to update the version of the parent pom.xml files, which can be tedious. Is there a way to cascade the version of the parent pom.xml down to all child pom.xml files?</p>
  
  <p>I had the idea to just create a property in the parent pom.xml for the current version, but that's not working.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>Here is a sample from my child pom.xml files:</p>
  
  
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;myGroup&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;myArtifactId&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;1.0&lt;/version&gt;  &lt;!-- This is the value that I would like to parameterize in my child pom.xmls --&gt;
      &lt;relativePath&gt;../../pom.xml&lt;/relativePath&gt;
  &lt;/parent&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As an aside, I am using Maven 3.0.3</p>