Maven project inheritance / aggregation diagram generation

Question

Does anyone know if it is possible to easily generate inheritance / aggregation diagrams of a maven project like the ones listed in the link below?

http://sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/figs/web/pom_real_multi.png

"Figure 3.5. The enterprise multimodule and inheritance"

Image taken from this page:

http://sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-pom-best-practice.html

This is useful for quickly understanding the structure of large maven projects.

Answer 1

One very quick way to do this if you have Eclipse:

• Install the m2eclipse plugin
• Open pom.xml, select the "Dependency Graph" tab
• Print-Screen .

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Answer 2

: POM Grapher ( ).