if (pom != null) {
            request.setMultiModuleProjectDirectory(pom.getParentFile());
        }

        return request;
    }

    // layer the creation of a project builder configuration with a request, but this will need to be
    // a Maven subclass because we don't want to couple maven to the project builder which we need to
    // separate.

        if (pom != null) {
            request.setMultiModuleProjectDirectory(pom.getParentFile());
        }

        return request;
    }

    // layer the creation of a project builder configuration with a request, but this will need to be
    // a Maven subclass because we don't want to couple maven to the project builder which we need to
    // separate.