I have a multi module maven project which looks something like: main component_one subcomponent_bob subcomponent_mike subcomponent_joe component_one_aggregate component_two subcomponent_tim subcomponent_lary component_two_aggregate The aggregate projects create parent jars for each of the components containing all of their subcomponents. I have a pom in each directory, and it all deploys to a local repository. Everything works great! Except that I would like