Define Maven plugins in parent pom, but only invoke plugins in child projects

Here’s the fifth way. I think it has minimum drawbacks: no profiles, no custom lifecycle, no declarations in child POMs, no ‘skip’ requirement for plugins.

Copied it from https://stackoverflow.com/a/14653088/2053580 — many thanks to end-user!

<build>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <!-- Main declaration and configuration of the plugin -->
                <!-- Will be inherited by children -->
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.9.1</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <!--This must be named-->
                        <id>checkstyle</id>
                        <phase>compile</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>check</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
                <!-- You may also use per-execution configuration block -->
                <configuration...>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <!-- This declaration makes sure children get plugin in their lifecycle -->
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
            <!-- Configuration won't be propagated to children -->
            <inherited>false</inherited>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <!--This matches and thus overrides execution defined above -->
                    <id>checkstyle</id>
                    <!-- Unbind from lifecycle for this POM -->
                    <phase>none</phase>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>