Share Maven plugin configurations

Question

In my projects want to use some common Maven plugin configurations like spotless and enforcer to ensure some consistency across all projects. So, I put these plugins into a parent pom that I inherit from. Now, some of the projects are Spring Boot applications that already have spring-boot-starter-parent as parent.

Is there any way to apply these convention plugins on all projects, but still allow some to use spring-boot-starter-parent? I have come across https://github.com/repaint-io/maven-tiles which does seem to solve that problem. However, tiles do seem to work against the Maven model, it does add additional complexity. I'm hoping for a more natural solution to the problem.

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• Jorge Campos: I would suggest, conventions-for-spring (this has spring starter) and conventions... without doing some malabarism (i.e using external like tiles) i'm not sure if there is a better option. but that's me, someone else might be able to help.
• khmarbaise: Make a separate pom file; define the plugins you usually need and your configuration and use spring boot as a BOM instead of using it as a parent...