in maven-plugin-tools-annotations/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/annotations/JavaAnnotationsMojoDescriptorExtractor.java [885:897]
protected MavenProject getFromProjectReferences(Artifact artifact, MavenProject project) {
if (project.getProjectReferences() == null
|| project.getProjectReferences().isEmpty()) {
return null;
}
Collection<MavenProject> mavenProjects = project.getProjectReferences().values();
for (MavenProject mavenProject : mavenProjects) {
if (Objects.equals(mavenProject.getId(), artifact.getId())) {
return mavenProject;
}
}
return null;
}