Overview
POM Manipulation Extension (PME) is a Maven tool to align the versions in your POMs according to some external reference, sort of like a BOM but much more extensive and without the added baggage of a BOM declaration.
It is suppplied as a core library, a Maven extension (in the sense of installing to lib/ext, not pom.xml <extensions/>) and a command line tool.
PME excels in a cleanroom environment where large numbers of pre-existing projects must be rebuilt. To minimize the number of builds necessary, PME supports aligning dependency versions using an external BOM-like reference. However, it can also use a similar POM external reference to align plugin versions, and inject standardized plugin executions into project builds. Because in this scenario you're often rebuilding projects from existing release tags, PME also supports appending a rebuild version suffix, such as rebuild-1, where the actual rebuild number is automatically incremented beyond the highest rebuild number detected in the Maven repository.
Installation as CLI tool.
Obtain the jar from here and then it may be invoked as
java -jar pom-manipulation-cli-<version>.jar
It supports the following arguments
-d,--debug Enable debug
-D <arg> Java Properties
-f,--file <arg> POM file
-h,--help Print help
Note that all property arguments are the equivalent to those used when it is used as a Maven extension.
Installation as an Extension
Installing PME is as simple as grabbing the binary and copying it to your ${MAVEN_HOME}/lib/ext directory. Once PME is installed, Maven should output something like the following when run:
[INFO] Maven-Manipulation-Extension
Uninstalling the extension is equally simple: just delete it from ${MAVEN_HOME}/lib/ext.
Disabling the Extension
You can disable PME using the manipulation.disable property:
$ mvn -Dmanipulation.disable=true clean install
If you want to make it more permanent, you could add it to your settings.xml:
<settings>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>disable-pme</id>
<properties>
<manipulation.disable>true</manipulation.disable>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<activeProfile>disable-pme</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>
Feature Guide
Below are links to more specific information about configuring sets of features in PME: