Maven - activate profile based on project property

Question

Hi I am trying to achieve something like this:

In a parent pom, I have

  
    
      Compil         


        

Answer 1

It won't work since...

To begin with:

• Profile activation works with system properties and not with Maven properties.

And why it would not work from the parent down to the children:

• The properties in the parent POM are expanded before your child POM even comes in the picture.

Many have gone here before you and failed.

One might wonder what you are really trying to do. Are you building different artifacts from the same source project? Perhaps you need a few more Maven modules to take care of things.