title: How can I get my sub projects to inherit dependency versions from the super project in a multi module Maven project?
body: <p>I have a multi module Maven project and I want the sub projects to inherit the versions for third party dependencies which I have specified in the parent project.  This is so I don't need to replicate version numbers everywhere.  It's not working though and when I leave out the version number on the children I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dependencies.dependency.version is missing
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What do I need to change to get this working?</p>