Maven - activate profile based on project property

Question

Hi I am trying to achieve something like this:

In a parent pom, I have

  
    
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Answer 1

Yes you can activate the profile depending one or variety of parameters like env variables.

    ...
    
        
            development
            
                
                    !environment.type
                
            
        
    

If you are trying to have different packaging depending on X than you can use the assembly plugin and do your magic there http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-assembly-plugin/

More on the activation property

• http://books.sonatype.com/mvnref-book/reference/profiles-sect-activation.html
• http://earlyandoften.wordpress.com/2011/02/09/disable-maven-profile/