How to execute maven goal on parent module but not on childer

I am working on multi module maven project and If I define any plugin in the parent pom.xml file, It get executed for all the child build as well.

In simple language, I wanted to use one plugin in parent pom.xml file which read properties file from the base directory but whenever I executes it, all the sub pom.xml tries to read the properties file from their base directory and its ends up in maven failed.

To resolve the above issue, We just need to add "inherit' attributes in the plugin.

Example :

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
<inherited>false</inherited>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<goals>
<goal>read-project-properties</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<files>
<file>${basedir}/rpm.properties</file>
</files>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

Now the plugin will get executed from the parent pom.xml file.

Thank you :)