Basic maven parent pom

maven-parent-pom.xml

<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>
  <name>Example Parent POM</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
  <groupId>com.example</groupId>
  <artifactId>example-parent-pom</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <packaging>pom</packaging>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>
  
  <modules>
    <module>module-a</module>
    <module>module-b</module>
  </modules>

<build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.2</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.6</source>
          <target>1.6</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  
  <dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
    </dependencies>
  </dependencyManagement>
  
</project>