Can I force Maven 2 to require a property to be specified on the command line?

Question

I\'m setting up a maven build, and the destination server needs to be specified on the command line as a property (which is then used to select the appropriate profile), eg<

Answer 1

My first inclination would be to make a Profile that's active whenever the env property is unset, and have it fail somehow. Perhaps you could write a Maven Plugin that tests for that property and fails if it's not present?

Alternately, you could probably test for it with a very small ant-build script.