title: Spring Boot - parent pom when you already have a parent pom
body: <p>Is there a specific recommended approach to the inclusion of the spring-boot parent pom into projects that already have a required parent POM?</p>
  
  <p>What do you recommend for projects that need to extend from an organizational parent (this is extremely common and even something many/most projects published to Maven central depending on the feeder repos they come from). Most of the build stuff is related to creating executable JARs (e.g. running embedded Tomcat/Jetty). There are ways to structure things so that you can get all the dependencies without extending from a parent (similar to composition vs. inheritance). You can't get a build stuff that way though.</p>
  
  <p>So is it preferable to include all of the spring-boot parent pom inside of the required parent POM or to simply have a POM dependency within the project POM file.</p>
  
  <p>Other options?</p>
  
  <p>TIA,</p>
  
  <p>Scott</p>