Currently readMavenPom will only return the local Model of the pom.xml. Often it is desired to get the effective model (i.e. the ones which also considers all parent poms). Please look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11525318/how-do-i-obtain-a-fully-resolved-model-of-a-pom-file and http://maven.40175.n5.nabble.com/How-is-the-best-way-to-get-an-effective-POM-outside-of-a-Maven-Plugin-td5912124.html on how to potentially achieve that.