generating maven project inheritance/aggregation diagram

Anyone knows if it is possible to easily generate maven project inheritance/aggregation diagrams like those found in the link below?

http://sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/figs/web/pom_real_multi.png

"Fig开发者_如何学JAVAure 3.5. Enterprise Multi-module vs. Inheritance"

The image was taken from this page:

http://sonatype.com/books/maven-book/reference/pom-relationships-sect-pom-best-practice.html

This is useful to quickly understand the structure of large maven projects.

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One really quick way to do this if you have Eclipse:

• Install the m2eclipse plugin
• Open your pom.xml, select the 'Dependency Graph' tab
• press Print-Screen to capture the image

If you right-click on the graph, you'll see all kinds of presentation options that you can tweak. You can also use the search & filter controls at the top right of the window to change what's shown.

If you want a graph that is created during your build and stays up to date, you could try maven-overview-plugin (not quite the same as your diagram, but looks nice all the same) or EL4J.

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There is a tool for this: POM Grapher (downloadable here).