Index: src/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriter.java
===================================================================
--- src/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriter.java	(revision 743456)
+++ src/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriter.java	(working copy)
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.ivy.Ivy;
+import org.apache.ivy.core.module.descriptor.Artifact;
 import org.apache.ivy.core.module.descriptor.DependencyDescriptor;
 import org.apache.ivy.core.module.descriptor.ModuleDescriptor;
 import org.apache.ivy.core.module.id.ModuleRevisionId;
@@ -54,6 +55,33 @@
         }
         PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(output),
                 "UTF-8"));
+        
+    	String packaging = null;
+    	Map uniqueArtifacts = new HashMap ();
+    	
+    	Artifact[] artifacts = md.getAllArtifacts();
+
+    	if (artifacts != null && artifacts.length > 0) {
+    		for (int i = 0; i < artifacts.length; i++) {
+    			if ((!"ivy".equals(artifacts[i].getType()) 
+    				&& !"pom".equals(artifacts[i].getType()))) {
+    				
+    				String artifactKey = artifacts[i].getName();
+    				if (!uniqueArtifacts.containsKey(artifacts[i].getName())
+    						&& !artifactKey.equals(md.getModuleRevisionId().getName())) {
+    					uniqueArtifacts.put(artifactKey, artifacts[i]);
+    				}
+    				
+    				if (packaging == null) packaging = artifacts[i].getExt();
+    			}
+    		}
+    		artifacts = null;
+    		   		
+    		if (uniqueArtifacts.size() > 0) {
+    			packaging = "pom"; 
+    		}
+    	}
+        
         try {
             out.println("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
             if (licenseHeader != null) {
@@ -72,19 +100,29 @@
             out.println("    xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 "
                     + "http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd\">\n");
             out.println("  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>");
-            printModuleId(md, out);
+            printModuleId(md, out, packaging);
             printDependencies(md, mapping, out);
+            
             out.println("</project>");
         } finally {
             out.close();
         }
+        
+        if (uniqueArtifacts.size() > 0) {
+        	Artifact[] unique = new Artifact[uniqueArtifacts.size()];
+        	uniqueArtifacts.values().toArray(unique);
+        	uniqueArtifacts = null;
+        	
+        	createChildDescriptors(md, licenseHeader, unique, output);
+        }
     }
 
-    private static void printModuleId(ModuleDescriptor md, PrintWriter out) {
+    private static void printModuleId(ModuleDescriptor md, PrintWriter out, 
+    		String packaging) {
         ModuleRevisionId mrid = md.getModuleRevisionId();
         out.println("  <groupId>" + mrid.getOrganisation() + "</groupId>");
         out.println("  <artifactId>" + mrid.getName() + "</artifactId>");
-        out.println("  <packaging>jar</packaging>");
+        out.println("  <packaging>" + packaging + "</packaging>");
         if (mrid.getRevision() != null) {
             out.println("  <version>" + mrid.getRevision() + "</version>");
         }
@@ -92,7 +130,75 @@
             out.println("  <url>" + md.getHomePage() + "</url>");
         }
     }
-
+    
+    private static void createChildDescriptors(ModuleDescriptor md, String licenseHeader, 
+    		Artifact[] artifacts, File output) throws IOException {
+        
+    	String outputdir = output.getParent();
+    	for (int i = 0; i < artifacts.length; i++) {
+    	
+	    	PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
+	    		new FileOutputStream(outputdir + "/" + artifacts[i].getName() + ".pom"), "UTF-8"));
+    	
+	    	try {
+	            out.println("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
+	            if (licenseHeader != null) {
+	                out.print(licenseHeader);
+	            }
+	            out.println("<!--"); 
+	            out.println("   Apache Maven 2 POM generated by Apache Ivy"); 
+	            out.println("   " + Ivy.getIvyHomeURL());
+	            if (addIvyVersion) {
+	                out.println("   Apache Ivy version: " + Ivy.getIvyVersion() 
+	                    + " " + Ivy.getIvyDate());
+	            }
+	            out.println("-->"); 
+	            out.println("<project xmlns=\"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0\" "
+	                    + "xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"");
+	            out.println("    xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 "
+	                    + "http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd\">\n");
+	            out.println("  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>");
+	            
+	            printArtifactId(md, artifacts[i], out);
+	            printParent(md, out);
+	            
+	            out.println("</project>");
+	        } finally {
+	            out.close();
+	        }
+        }
+    }
+    
+    private static void printParent(ModuleDescriptor md, PrintWriter out) {
+        ModuleRevisionId mrid = md.getModuleRevisionId();
+        out.println("");
+        out.println("  <parent>");
+        out.println("    <groupId>" + mrid.getOrganisation() + "</groupId>");
+        out.println("    <artifactId>" + mrid.getName() + "</artifactId>");
+        if (mrid.getRevision() != null) {
+            out.println("    <version>" + mrid.getRevision() + "</version>");
+        }
+        if (md.getHomePage() != null) {
+            out.println("    <url>" + md.getHomePage() + "</url>");
+        }
+        out.println("  </parent>");
+    }
+    
+    private static void printArtifactId(ModuleDescriptor md, Artifact artifact, 
+    		PrintWriter out) {
+        ModuleRevisionId mrid = md.getModuleRevisionId();
+        out.println("  <groupId>" + mrid.getOrganisation() + "</groupId>");
+        out.println("  <artifactId>" + artifact.getName() + "</artifactId>");
+        out.println("  <packaging>" + ((artifact.getExt() != null) ?
+        		artifact.getExt() : artifact.getType()) + "</packaging>");
+        if (mrid.getRevision() != null) {
+            out.println("  <version>" + mrid.getRevision() + "</version>");
+        }
+        if (md.getHomePage() != null) {
+            out.println("  <url>" + md.getHomePage() + "</url>");
+        }
+    }
+    
     private static void printDependencies(
             ModuleDescriptor md, ConfigurationScopeMapping mapping, PrintWriter out) {
         DependencyDescriptor[] dds = md.getDependencies();
Index: test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriterTest.java
===================================================================
--- test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriterTest.java	(revision 743456)
+++ test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/PomModuleDescriptorWriterTest.java	(working copy)
@@ -93,6 +93,19 @@
         assertEquals(expected, wrote);
     }
     
+    public void testPackaging() throws Exception {
+        ModuleDescriptor md = PomModuleDescriptorParser.getInstance().parseDescriptor(
+            new IvySettings(), getClass().getResource("test-packaging.pom"), false);
+        PomModuleDescriptorWriter.write(md, LICENSE, PomModuleDescriptorWriter.DEFAULT_MAPPING, _dest);
+        assertTrue(_dest.exists());
+        
+        String wrote = FileUtil.readEntirely(new BufferedReader(new FileReader(_dest))).replaceAll(
+            "\r\n", "\n").replace('\r', '\n');
+        String expected = readEntirely("test-write-packaging.xml")
+            .replaceAll("\r\n", "\n").replace('\r', '\n');
+        assertEquals(expected, wrote);
+    }
+    
     private String readEntirely(String resource) throws IOException {
         return FileUtil.readEntirely(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
             PomModuleDescriptorWriterTest.class.getResource(resource).openStream())));
Index: test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-packaging.pom
===================================================================
--- test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-packaging.pom	(revision 743456)
+++ test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-packaging.pom	(working copy)
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
   <packaging>war</packaging>
   <name>Test Module for Ivy M2 parsing</name>
   <version>1.0</version>
-  <url>http://ivy.jayasoft.org/</url>
+  <url>http://ant.apache.org/ivy</url>
   <organization>
-    <name>Jayasoft</name>
-    <url>http://www.jayasoft.org/</url>
+    <name>Apache</name>
+    <url>http://ant.apache.org/ivy</url>
   </organization>
 </project>
Index: test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-write-packaging.xml
===================================================================
--- test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-write-packaging.xml	(revision 0)
+++ test/java/org/apache/ivy/plugins/parser/m2/test-write-packaging.xml	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+   or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+   distributed with this work for additional information
+   regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+   to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+   "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+   with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+   software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+   "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+   KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+   specific language governing permissions and limitations
+   under the License.    
+-->
+<!--
+   Apache Maven 2 POM generated by Apache Ivy
+   http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
+
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>org.apache</groupId>
+  <artifactId>test</artifactId>
+  <packaging>war</packaging>
+  <version>1.0</version>
+  <url>http://ant.apache.org/ivy</url>
+</project>
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