Introduction

This contains a common parent for all projects to use.

Releasing Projects

The release profile enables the maven-gpg-plugin, maven-source-plugin and the license-maven-plugin. Note that the license-maven-plugin ( See here ) has a standard format for licenses. An alternative format for the Apache 2 license is available by specifiying

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.mycila</groupId>
    <artifactId>license-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <configuration>
       <header>APACHE-2-SIMPLIFIED-COPYRIGHT.txt</header>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

in the project configuration. The allows Copyright (C) ${project.inceptionYear} ${owner} instead of Copyright (C) ${project.inceptionYear} ${owner} (${email}).