How to make one module depend on another module artifact?

Question

I have maven multiple-module project.

 A: parent.     B: child1.     C: child2. 

B will be packaged to get jar file and then c will use this jar file to compile the code.

In B, if I run mvn package, it will create b.jar (stays in B/target/jars not in B/target -for another purpose).

In C, I need to use that b.jar to compile the code.

Now, from A, when I run: mvn package. First, I am successful to create b.jar file for B.

But when it come to C's compilation phase, it looks like C doesn't recognize b.jar in the classpath (the compilation gets errors because C's code can not import the class file from B).

My question is: How can I solve this problem?

---------- Below are the pom files

A: pom.xml   <groupId>AAA</groupId>   <artifactId>A</artifactId>   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>   <packaging>pom</packaging>     <modules>    <module>C</module>    <module>B</module>    </modules>  B: pom.xml         <groupId>AAA</groupId>  <artifactId>B</artifactId>  <packaging>jar</packaging>  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>  <parent>   <artifactId>A</artifactId>   <groupId>AAA</groupId>   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>  </parent>  C: pom.xml        <parent>   <artifactId>A</artifactId>   <groupId>AAA</groupId>   <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>  </parent>   <groupId>AAA</groupId>  <artifactId>C</artifactId>  <packaging>war</packaging>  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>   <dependencies>    <dependency>    <groupId>AAA</groupId>    <artifactId>B</artifactId>    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>   </dependency> .... 

Answer 1

Try ${project.version}

e.g.

<dependency>    <groupId>AAA</groupId>    <artifactId>B</artifactId>    <version>${project.version}</version> </dependency> 

Answer 2

Looks like it should work to me. But you might try mvn install instead of mvn package.