Web resources filtering with Maven war plugin does not work in Eclipse with m2e

Question

I\'m trying to filter a Spring configuration file using Maven filtering. My POM is configured like this:

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Answer 1

Well, finally I got it.

First of all, I did what khmarbaise pointed out. I moved applicationContext.xml to the resources folder. War plugin webResources are meant to work with external resources, and filtering a file in the destination folder itself was not the best practice. I updated the POM to reflect the new configuration

    
        
            src/main/resources
            true
        
    

and

        
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-war-plugin
            2.2
            
                
                    
                        true
                        WEB-INF/context
                        src/main/resources/WEB-INF/context
                        
                            applicationContext.xml
                        
                    
                
            
        

So, half of the credit to him. But that's was not enough, it still didn't work. I realized that Maven/m2e was indeed filtering my file, but it didn't get my defined properties files. After some testing I found out that m2e is ignoring the activeByDefault option in the profiles activation section.

So, I added my default profile to the project Maven configuration and then it worked