maven condition based on os family

Question

I am trying to do the following:

                
                    copy-jre

        

Answer 1

You can use profiles to do this.

e.g.

<profile>
    <id>platform-windows</id>
    <activation>
        <os>
            <family>windows</family>
        </os>
    </activation>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            ...
        </plugins>
    </build>
</profile>

In your case, you might just want to specify os/family in the profile's activation element.

Answer 2

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.