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Multi-module Maven project : child C require child B but build error telling parent A is not found

I have a problem when building specific module of my Maven projects
Project structure is like this :
data-importer (parent A)
|____ spring-batch (child B, jar)
|____ docker (child C)
I'm using IntelliJ (but tried with CLI and same behaviour) to build, when I'm building from the parent pom there is no problem but when I'm trying to build firstly spring-batch then docker I have the current error :
Could not find artifact ***.****.****.****:data-importer:pom:develop in nexus (http://**********/repository/maven-dev-group/)
I don't know why it's trying to get parent's pom, even if I have defined relativePath in child's POMs
I have the following POM (without the confidential parts) :
data-importer (parent A)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>*******</groupId>
<artifactId>data-importer</artifactId>
<version>develop</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>data-importer</name>
<description>data importer application for *</description>
<parent>
<groupId>*****.*****.******</groupId>
<artifactId>super-pom</artifactId>
<version>2.2.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<relativePath/>
</parent>
<properties>
some versions
</properties>
<modules>
<module>spring-batch</module>
<module>docker</module>
</modules>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>*.*.*.*</groupId>
<artifactId>data-importer-spring-batch</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>
**spring-batch (child A) **
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>****.****.**.***</groupId>
<artifactId>data-importer</artifactId>
<version>develop</version>
<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
<artifactId>data-importer-spring-batch</artifactId>
<version>develop</version>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<name>spring-batch</name>
<description>data importer application for *</description>
<dependencies>
some dependencies
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${spring.boot.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>data-importer</id>
<goals>
<goal>repackage</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
one dependency
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
</project>
docker (child C)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<parent>
<groupId>*.*.*.*</groupId>
<artifactId>data-importer</artifactId>
<version>develop</version>
<relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>
<artifactId>scpas-import</artifactId>
<version>develop</version>
<packaging>pom</packaging>
<name>docker</name>
<description>data importer application for docker</description>
<profiles>
<!-- Profil commun pour générer les images docker -->
<profile>
<id>docker</id>
<build>
<finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName>
<plugins>
<!--Copy du jar spring batch dans target/docker/volumes/transferdata/import/data-importer -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-data-importer-jar-files</id>
<goals>
<goal>copy-dependencies</goal>
</goals>
<phase>generate-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<includeGroupIds>*.*.*.*</includeGroupIds>
<includeArtifactIds>data-importer-spring-batch</includeArtifactIds>
<type>jar</type>
<outputDirectory>
${project.build.directory}/docker/volumes/transferdata/import/data-importer/
</outputDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>copy-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>copy-resources</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/docker</outputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/database</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/data-importer</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>Dockerfile</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>docker-compose.data-importer.yml</include>
</includes>
</resource>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
<includes>
<include>docker-entry-point.sh</include>
</includes>
</resource>
</resources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!--Génération de image docker-->
<plugin>
<groupId>com.spotify</groupId>
<artifactId>docker-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>build-image</id>
<goals>
<goal>build</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<dockerDirectory>${project.build.directory}/docker</dockerDirectory>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</profile>
<profile>
<id>
docker-push
</id>
some steps to push image in our registry
</profile>
</profiles>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>*.*.*.*</groupId>
<artifactId>data-importer-spring-batch</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
<artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Any idea why it's trying to get parent POM from registry ? (I don't want to push it as a mvn dependency)
Thx
I tried some tricks in settings.xml to never pull snapshots and releases from registry but nothing works except building full project from parent's POM

Since access to the parent-POM is given, you can just locally install it beforehand.
This will solve looking parent up a repository.
What you need is to call Maven with -N (non-recursively) option mvn install -N and then you should be able to use it.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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
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<repositories>
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<dependencies>
...
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<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
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The detail command:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<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">
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<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
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I have he following structure of a maven web application
When I execute mvn install command it's creating war file but if you will look in target directory/sureportal you can easily see that lots of sub folders inside webapps directory are missing. What is wrong?
pom.xml file
<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/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>com.nokia</groupId>
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<version>1.0.0</version>
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<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<finalName>sureportal</finalName>
</build>
</project>

You can have a maven-war-plugin and configure to include empty folders.
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<includeEmptyDirectories>true</includeEmptyDirectories>
</configuration>
</plugin>

In addition to the answer of sbaitmangalkar, insert the maven-war-plugin to the build section of your POM:
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<plugins>
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<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
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<resource>
<directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
<includes>
<include>**/*</include>
</includes>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
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<directory>src/main/resources/META-INF</directory>
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<includes>
<include>context.xml</include>
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I have created a maven application with JSF, Spring and JSF facets. The goals clean (deleting the target directory) and compile are working fine. But when I am running Maven with package option, I see that in the generated xxx-SNAPSHOT.war file the webapp and WEB-INF directory are copied recursively.
The Maven version is 3.1.0.
Please see the below 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">
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<artifactId>employeerepository</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<name>Employee Location Repository</name>
<properties>
<version.spring>3.1.2.RELEASE</version.spring>
<version.aopalliance>1.0</version.aopalliance>
<version.standard.taglibs>1.1.2</version.standard.taglibs>
<version.commons.logging>1.1.1</version.commons.logging>
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<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<testSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
<testOutputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/WEB-INF/classes/test</testOutputDirectory>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.4</version>
<configuration>
<webappDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</webappDirectory>
<failOnMissingWebXml>true</failOnMissingWebXml>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.1</version>
<configuration>
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<target>1.7</target>
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</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
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Any ideas how I can avoid this?
Thanks in advance,
Mouli.

This makes no sense
<sourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/java</sourceDirectory>
<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>
<testSourceDirectory>${basedir}/src/test/java</testSourceDirectory>
<testOutputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/WEB-INF/classes/test</testOutputDirectory>
Remove those lines. You're building application to source dir.
This have no sense as well
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources</directory>
<excludes>
<exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
</excludes>
</resource>
</resources>
Why do you have .java files in resources in the first place?