I have parent project with all dependencies used in my company with all dependency management, util dependencies, plugins and plugins management. This parent inherit spring-boot-starter-parent as bootstrap parent and aggregate some libs as submodules.

I have in other repos many applications as project which aggregate three standard modules:

• migrations (uses stndard set of libs to perform migrations and plugins to fix db)
• api (uses standard set of vanilla util libs and other api)
• app (uses spring, standard set of spring managed dependencies, spring plugins and others e.g. generate java objects from db)

I don’t want duplicate standard set of dependencies in every application.

I was thinking to create parent-migration, parent-api, parent-app and use it in every application project submodules,
but aggregated submodule cannot inherit other parent.

I was thinking to import parent like this, but scope “import” imports “dependency management” section only, without declared dependencies, plugins, properties, etc.

How can I mix aggregation and inheritance in maven, or resolve this problem in other way?