GH-2180 - Add Maven Flatten Plugin to only publish reduced POM.

Author: odrotbohm

.gitignore

@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ target/
 *.iml
 .idea
 *.orig
+.flattened-pom.xml
 .springBeans
 credentials.yml

pom.xml

@@ -853,6 +853,38 @@
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
+				<artifactId>flatten-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>1.6.0</version>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<id>flatten</id>
+						<phase>process-resources</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>flatten</goal>
+						</goals>
+						<configuration>
+							<updatePomFile>true</updatePomFile>
+							<flattenMode>oss</flattenMode>
+							<pomElements>
+								<distributionManagement>remove</distributionManagement>
+								<properties>remove</properties>
+								<repositories>remove</repositories>
+								<profiles>remove</profiles>
+							</pomElements>
+						</configuration>
+					</execution>
+					<execution>
+						<id>flatten-clean</id>
+						<phase>clean</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>clean</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+
 		</plugins>
 	</build>