I have been a user of the versions maven plugin for many years but I think I never actually used it to its full potential. Latetly I wanted to control the way updates were resolved when I was invoking 1mvn versions:display-dependency-updates I wanted to get rid of snapshos and all sorts of different naming convensions …

Like many of you out there, I am working with a multi module Maven project. It is not a huge one comparing to many systems out there, it has 15 modules, with 3 different ear deployments, lots of parametrization with property files and around 100K lines of Java code. During peak development times, the code is heavily …