title: Spring boot with maven multi modules not working
body: <p>I'm trying to create,parent pom which will hold all the child spring boot modules, But when i build parent pom, I'm getting the below error.</p>
  
  <p><strong>[ERROR]   The project com.some.special:special-parent:0.0.1 (C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom\pom.xml) has 1 error
  [ERROR]     Child module C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom..\special-security of C:\Users\location\git\special-parent-pom\pom.xml does not exist.</strong></p>
  
  <p>Below is my project structure:</p>
  
  <p><strong>--special-parent-pom</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>--special-security</strong></p>
  
  <p>both parent and child in same folder(C:\Users\location\git)</p>
  
  <p>below is the parent pom.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
      &lt;groupId&gt;com.some.special&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;special-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;0.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;packaging&gt;pom&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
      &lt;name&gt;special-parent&lt;/name&gt;
      &lt;description&gt;special-parent&lt;/description&gt;
      &lt;parent&gt;
      &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;version&gt;2.1.2.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
      &lt;/parent&gt;
  
  
          &lt;modules&gt;
              &lt;module&gt;../special-security&lt;/module&gt;
           &lt;/modules&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Below is the child pom.xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
      &lt;artifactId&gt;special-security&lt;/artifactId&gt;
      &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
      &lt;parent&gt;
          &lt;groupId&gt;com.some.special&lt;/groupId&gt;
          &lt;artifactId&gt;special-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
          &lt;version&gt;0.0.1&lt;/version&gt;
          &lt;relativePath&gt;../special-parent/pom.xml&lt;/relativePath&gt;
      &lt;/parent&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm unable to identify where the mistake is, can someone help me on this or share any example.My final goal is when i build the parent pom, it should build all the child modules with jar, basically spring boot child modules.</p>