All JBoss BOMs specify org.jboss:jboss-parent as a parent. The parent is used to share pluginManagement configuration across various JBoss project in community.

However, during productization effort, the parent is modified which has following consequences for every JBoss BOM:

1/ Version management in <properties> is propagated to the BOM, which might influence versions in both plugins and dependencies in an unexpected way
2/ Any dependencies specified in <dependencyManagement> of an upper pom (e.g. productized jboss-parent up to root) are included as well if a JBoss BOM is imported in <dependencyManagement>
3/ Plugin management is configured to use enterprise plugins, which are not available to the outside world

As a note, current hierarchy of productized jboss-parent:8-redhat-1 (jboss-parent -> jboss-component-version-master) together with recommended usage, that is the BOM is used to import dependencies only, does not break points 2/ and 3/.

This effort reflects following community changes already done:

• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-11760
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-843
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ARQ-686
• https://issues.jboss.org/browse/SHRINKWRAP-367