[jira] Closed: (MNG-2711) Maven cannot share properties with other tools (e.g. ant)

["Brett Porter (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org>]

     [ http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2711?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Brett Porter closed MNG-2711.
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         Assignee: Brett Porter
       Resolution: Won't Fix
    Fix Version/s:     (was: Reviewed Pending Version Assignment)

Maven requires the properties in the POM so that it is self-contained in the repository.

I suggest using the Maven ant tasks to load the POM and retrieve the properties from there, making it your central storage.

> Maven cannot share properties with other tools (e.g. ant)
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MNG-2711
>                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-2711
>             Project: Maven 2
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: POM, Profiles, Settings
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.4
>            Reporter: Aaron Digulla
>            Assignee: Brett Porter
>
> I have a project which is built with Ant *and* Maven. It installs/deploys a set of third party JARs to our inhouse repository.
> Basically, I'm using Ant to invoke Maven several times to install each JAR.
> In Ant, I can export the properties to a file but maven can't do this. Therefore, I have to define all properties at least twice.
> I suggest to add a new element "propertyFiles" to the POM, Profiles and settings.xml where you can specify a list of files to be read.
> If a property is defined twice, the latest definition should win (unlike Ant), so you can control the properties using profiles.

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