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Global parent for Maven artifact hierarchy. Defines fixed versions of Maven plugins to be used and certain general Maven settings.

The settings in this global parent POM cover:

Set output encoding to UTF-8
Set default compiler settings
Include Global Build Tools with configurations for static code analysis
Configure maven plugins for Checkstyle, Spotbugs, PMD and JaCoCo for static code analysis
Configure maven-eclipse plugin with standard Eclipse project settings (usable in classic Eclipse and m2e Eclipse projects)
Set build timestamps
Define default versions of common used maven plugins
Define default exclusions for m2e lifecycle