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 A parent pom for all the gCube artifacts.
 
 # Enforcements 
-* Java 8 (target and source)
+* Java 8 (target and source) unless otherwise specified inside the pom
 * OpenJDK as target Java VM.
 * Maven 3.3.9+
 * README.md, CHANGELOG.md and LICENSE.md are present in the baseDir of each Maven module
@@ -11,19 +11,41 @@ A parent pom for all the gCube artifacts.
 
 # Build Profiles
 
-## gcube-developer
+The build profiles are separated in three main branches: developer, staging, releases.
+Each branch has a set of profile based on the idk.
+The developer branch contains the profiles related to the snapshot build:
+
+* gcore-legacy jdk7
+* gcube-legacy - jdk8
+* gcube-official -jdk11
+* gcube-experimental - jdk17
+
+In the same way are organised the other branch profiles related to the staging (integration) phase and to the release phase.
+
+In addition there are a set of common profiles useful in order to avoid replication of plugins and rules definitions:
+
+* common-snapshot
+* common-release
+* dry-run
+* disable-java8-doclint
+* set-local-classpath
+* generate-distribution-packages
+
+Below the descriptions of the most used profiles by gCube components:
+
+## common-snapshot
+This profile defines the common plugin used by all the snapshot profiles
+
+## common-releases
+This profile defines the common plugin used by all the staging and release profiles
+
+## gcube-official
 * Dependencies resolved against local, gcube-snapshots and gcube-releases
 * Snapshot artifacts installed to local
 * Snapshot artifacts deployed to gcube-snapshots
 * Deployments of releases artifacts are not permitted
 
-## jenkins-snapshots
-* Dependencies resolved against local-snapshots, gcube-snapshots and gcube-releases
-* Snapshot artifacts installed to local-snapshots
-* Snapshot artifacts deployed to gcube-snapshots
-* Deployments of release artifacts are not permitted
-
-## jenkins-staging
+## jenkins-staging-official
 * Dependencies resolved against local-staging, gcube-jenkins-staging, gcube-staging and gcube-releases
 * Release/snapshot artifacts installed to local-staging
 * Release/snapshot artifacts deployed to gcube-jenkins-staging
@@ -41,3 +63,6 @@ This profile disables the deployment of the artifacts.
 This profile sets an additional parameter for javadoc generation to disables the doclint. 
 It avoids the build fails if formal/syntax errors are found in javadoc comments.
 
+## set-local-classpath
+This profile set a generic folder that will be added to the classpath
+