MavenParent
This project provides the best of maven easily consumable a maven parent project, called MavenParent. With this project you get:
Checkstyle and PMD checks that will work by default in eclipse with m2e-code-quality.
OWASP vulnerability checks of your dependencies.
Easy application of BSD-3 clause license to all your code with mycila-license plugin.
The ability to easily enforce semantic version on a jar project with japicmp.
Prevent duplicates on your classpath with basepom's duplicate-finder.
All of the above can be configured or disabled easily with properties, just check their docs, except takari.
A whole slew of pretty maven reports including the above are generated in the maven site.
The ability to easily deploy to oss nexus, and publish maven generated sites back to github's sites pages.