maven condition based on os family

Question

I am trying to do the following:

                
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Answer 1

The Sonatype book, "Maven: The Complete Reference" section 9.2 deals with maven properties and lists the following properties that are pertinent to your question:

java.version
os.name

The java.version property seems usable and in my testing returned "1.6.0_27". However, the os.name property is not exactly an "os family" as you requested. In my case os.name returns "Windows Vista", which I imagine is not what you are hoping for. I don't know of a property to get the os family as you desire it so I recommend using maven profiles as prunge mentioned to handle configuring your plugins with the desired os.