Parent Child POM's

[abacchus]

Hi Guys,
I have multiple projects that will be using the same POMS. the only thing that would change is the artifactid and version in the projects node. my question is how do i put all of my dependencies and distrubtionmanagement in a separate pom file and have a small pom file in my project that has a link to the pom file that has all of the dependencies and distrubtionmanagement ? i am trying to keep the pom file in each project very small. see the example below.

<!-- This will be the pom in my project -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.company</groupId>
<artifactId>my-app-name</artifactId>
<version>1.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>my-app-name</name>
</project>

<!-- This is the file on my maven server that will be called for the dependencies and distributionmanagement on every maven build -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<project>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<distributionManagement>
<repository>

</repository>
<snapshotRepository>

</snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>

[Tolls]

You just set the parent pom in the child poms, don't you?