Common project for all elasticsearch java projects

This project provides a pom parent artifact for elasticsearch java projects such as core and official plugins.

It declares versions to use for dependencies and plugins so when something needs to be updated within multiple projects, only this project basically needs an update.

Plugins

To define elasticsearch-parent as a parent project in a plugin project, you just need to add the following in pom.xml file:

<parent>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch-parent</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0</version>
</parent>

Then, depending on a given library can be done without explicitly setting a version (nor a scope):

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.hamcrest</groupId>
        <artifactId>hamcrest-all</artifactId>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
        <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Same goes for plugins:

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

If you need to depend on a parent SNAPSHOT version, you need to declare the sonatype SNAPSHOT repository:

• either add this to your ~/.m2/settings.xml or to the pom.xml:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>oss-snapshots</id>
        <name>Sonatype OSS Snapshots</name>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Note that to release a plugin which depends on a SNAPSHOT parent version, a release of the parent project is required first.