The parent project must have a packaging type of POM

Question

I am trying to create a new maven module. Parent project is a Web Service and has pom.xml.

How can I fix this error and create a new module?

Answer 1

Update your parent project's pom.xml by replacing packaging property from jar/war to pom as following...

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>project-group</groupId>
    <artifactId>webservice</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>pom</packaging>
    <name>project-name</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>  
</project>

Answer 2

Open POM.xml in eclipse Id->Overview->ArtifactId->Packaging(Select POM from dropdown)->Save then create new Maven module.