Can a child pom inherit plugin management and dependency management from the spring-boot-starter-parent of a custom parent pom?

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Suppose, I have a custom parent pom with spring-boot-starter-parent as its parent. Will a child pom of this custom parent be able to inherit plugin management and dependency management from the spring-boot-starter-parent?

From what I could find out: if we use a custom parent we cannot use the plugin management features of the spring-boot-starter-parent but dependency management can be used by importing it spring-boot-dependencies as BOM. But say - my custom parent has spring-boot-starter-parent as its parent - will the child pom of this custom parent be able to inherit/use the dependency and plugin management features of the spring-boot-starter-parent through transitive dependencies mechanism? I think it could but I am not 100% confident. I am still a novice to Maven and I couldn't quite get my head around this. Please help to explain it.

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Have you read the docs? docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/… - Simon Martinelli
Hi @SimonMartinelli, yes I have already read this. However, here it does not mention anything about inheriting starter parent from custom parent, which is my main doubt. - Esli Vemai
Have you tried it? - Simon Martinelli
Hi Simon, thank you. I tried and could fetch both the dependency and plugin managements. Sometimes, without even giving a thought I tend to seek spoon feeding. This is a lesson learned. Thanks and please advise if you have anything additional to say regarding the question. - Esli Vemai
Great that it works. I added my comment as the answer. I would appreciate if you could accept it. Thank you - Simon Martinelli

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Inheritance works. You can simply try it.

For your reference her is the official documentation:

https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/htmlsingle/#using-boot-maven-without-a-parent