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activeProfiles
I have two development environments: work and personal.
I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in
a settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
people separate work development from personal development?
Cheers, Eric
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Eric Kolotyluk <er...@gmail.com>.
Sweet!
I was wondering if there was some way to activate a profile
conditionally. Can the property be defined in a pom.xml, or does it have
to be defined elsewhere.?
Cheers, Eric
On 2013-03-24 7:46 AM, Robert Scholte wrote:
> For our mojo-projects we often have a profile for integration-tests,
> which is active by default with the following trick:
> <activation>
> <property>
> <name>skipTests</name>
> <value>!true</value>
> </property>
> </activation>
>
> This means that if and only if there's a property skipTests and its
> value is true, the profile is deactivated.
>
> Robert
>
> Op Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:41:57 +0100 schreef Eric Kolotyluk
> <er...@gmail.com>:
>
>> I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also
>> thinking of
>> having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
>> login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
>>
>> Seriously too bad that <activeProfiles> cannot be in a pom.xml file.
>>
>> Cheers, Eric
>> On Mar 23, 2013 7:15 AM, "Wayne Fay" <wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> > I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which
>>> profile to
>>> > activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM,
>>> only in
>>> a
>>> > settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>>> >
>>> > Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
>>> people
>>> > separate work development from personal development?
>>>
>>> One technique I've employed uses two settings.xml files. First you
>>> should
>>> know about the -s option when calling mvn, look it up. Copy mvn.bat to
>>> mvnp.bat and mvnw.bat (or .sh). In mvnp.bat, specify -s
>>> settings-personal.xml and in mvnw.bat, specify -s settings-work.xml.
>>>
>>> Then call mvnw or mvnp instead of mvn. You can also adjust mvn.bat
>>> directly
>>> and use that for personal (or work, whichever is most common).
>>>
>>> Or just set up another user account and log in/out depending on what
>>> you
>>> are working on, each with its own settings.xml. This is easier on
>>> Linux/Unix.
>>>
>>> Wayne
>
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Robert Scholte <rf...@apache.org>.
For our mojo-projects we often have a profile for integration-tests, which
is active by default with the following trick:
<activation>
<property>
<name>skipTests</name>
<value>!true</value>
</property>
</activation>
This means that if and only if there's a property skipTests and its value
is true, the profile is deactivated.
Robert
Op Sun, 24 Mar 2013 15:41:57 +0100 schreef Eric Kolotyluk
<er...@gmail.com>:
> I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also thinking
> of
> having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
> login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
>
> Seriously too bad that <activeProfiles> cannot be in a pom.xml file.
>
> Cheers, Eric
> On Mar 23, 2013 7:15 AM, "Wayne Fay" <wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile
>> to
>> > activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only
>> in
>> a
>> > settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>> >
>> > Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
>> people
>> > separate work development from personal development?
>>
>> One technique I've employed uses two settings.xml files. First you
>> should
>> know about the -s option when calling mvn, look it up. Copy mvn.bat to
>> mvnp.bat and mvnw.bat (or .sh). In mvnp.bat, specify -s
>> settings-personal.xml and in mvnw.bat, specify -s settings-work.xml.
>>
>> Then call mvnw or mvnp instead of mvn. You can also adjust mvn.bat
>> directly
>> and use that for personal (or work, whichever is most common).
>>
>> Or just set up another user account and log in/out depending on what you
>> are working on, each with its own settings.xml. This is easier on
>> Linux/Unix.
>>
>> Wayne
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Joachim Van der Auwera <jo...@progs.be>.
I adjusted my maven startup script to automatically use project specific
settings.xml file:
see http://blog.progs.be/311/project-specific-maven-settings-xml
Kind regards,
Joachim
On 03/24/2013 05:25 PM, Wayne Fay wrote:
>> I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also thinking of
>> having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
>> login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
> Even better is using a VM for your work environment on the personal
> machine. This is what I do the last few years. I have a buddy who has
> Mountain Lion VMs hosted (Parallels) on his ML machine. He has a
> "financial" VM for banking and taxes, a "work" VM for work stuff, etc.
>
> Wayne
>
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Eric Kolotyluk <er...@gmail.com>.
Yes, I have VMWare Workstation 9.
I can get our IT department to give me an image so I can join the work
domain.
Excellent suggestion :-)
Cheers, Eric
On 2013-03-24 9:25 AM, Wayne Fay wrote:
>> I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also thinking of
>> having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
>> login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
> Even better is using a VM for your work environment on the personal
> machine. This is what I do the last few years. I have a buddy who has
> Mountain Lion VMs hosted (Parallels) on his ML machine. He has a
> "financial" VM for banking and taxes, a "work" VM for work stuff, etc.
>
> Wayne
>
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>.
> I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also thinking of
> having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
> login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
Even better is using a VM for your work environment on the personal
machine. This is what I do the last few years. I have a buddy who has
Mountain Lion VMs hosted (Parallels) on his ML machine. He has a
"financial" VM for banking and taxes, a "work" VM for work stuff, etc.
Wayne
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Eric Kolotyluk <er...@gmail.com>.
I was trying to avoid having two setting.xml files. I was also thinking of
having two login accounts each with their own settings.xml as role based
login makes more sense. Thanks for confirming my thinking.
Seriously too bad that <activeProfiles> cannot be in a pom.xml file.
Cheers, Eric
On Mar 23, 2013 7:15 AM, "Wayne Fay" <wa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
> > activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in
> a
> > settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
> >
> > Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
> people
> > separate work development from personal development?
>
> One technique I've employed uses two settings.xml files. First you should
> know about the -s option when calling mvn, look it up. Copy mvn.bat to
> mvnp.bat and mvnw.bat (or .sh). In mvnp.bat, specify -s
> settings-personal.xml and in mvnw.bat, specify -s settings-work.xml.
>
> Then call mvnw or mvnp instead of mvn. You can also adjust mvn.bat directly
> and use that for personal (or work, whichever is most common).
>
> Or just set up another user account and log in/out depending on what you
> are working on, each with its own settings.xml. This is easier on
> Linux/Unix.
>
> Wayne
>
activeProfiles
Posted by Wayne Fay <wa...@gmail.com>.
> I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
> activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in a
> settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>
> Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other people
> separate work development from personal development?
One technique I've employed uses two settings.xml files. First you should
know about the -s option when calling mvn, look it up. Copy mvn.bat to
mvnp.bat and mvnw.bat (or .sh). In mvnp.bat, specify -s
settings-personal.xml and in mvnw.bat, specify -s settings-work.xml.
Then call mvnw or mvnp instead of mvn. You can also adjust mvn.bat directly
and use that for personal (or work, whichever is most common).
Or just set up another user account and log in/out depending on what you
are working on, each with its own settings.xml. This is easier on
Linux/Unix.
Wayne
Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Eric Kolotyluk <er...@gmail.com>.
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Jörg Schaible <jo...@gmx.de>wrote:
> Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
>
> >
> > On 2013-03-25 3:49 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have two development environments: work and personal.
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile
> to
> >>> activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only
> in
> >>> a settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
> >>>
> >>> Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
> >>> people separate work development from personal development?
> >> What's the problem with it? If you active a profile in the settings.xml,
> >> you can use this profile (i.e. a profile with same name) also in your
> >> POMs, you don't need an activation anymore.
>
> actually I don't get why a separate VM is preferable to a second
> settings.xml in this case - if we still only talk about Maven ;-)
>
> - Jörg
>
>
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Personal preference. For me it makes more sense to just work in a specific
role or environment for all my work.
Having to manage multiple settings files leads to complexity, mistakes, and
frustration. I don't want to have use Maven with more options than I need
to. I really believe in convention over configuration, and multiple
settings.xml files violates that principle.
Cheers, Eric
Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Jörg Schaible <jo...@gmx.de>.
Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
>
> On 2013-03-25 3:49 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
>> Hi Eric,
>>
>> Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
>>
>>> I have two development environments: work and personal.
>>>
>>> I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
>>> activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in
>>> a settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>>>
>>> Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
>>> people separate work development from personal development?
>> What's the problem with it? If you active a profile in the settings.xml,
>> you can use this profile (i.e. a profile with same name) also in your
>> POMs, you don't need an activation anymore.
actually I don't get why a separate VM is preferable to a second
settings.xml in this case - if we still only talk about Maven ;-)
- Jörg
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Eric Kolotyluk <er...@gmail.com>.
On 2013-03-25 3:49 AM, Jörg Schaible wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
>
>> I have two development environments: work and personal.
>>
>> I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
>> activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in
>> a settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>>
>> Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
>> people separate work development from personal development?
> What's the problem with it? If you active a profile in the settings.xml, you
> can use this profile (i.e. a profile with same name) also in your POMs, you
> don't need an activation anymore.
>
> - Jörg
>
>
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What I wanted to do was uses the same settings.xml for work and personal
development. For example, I have to profiles
1. nexus-kodak
2. nexus-kolotyluk
The first uses the settings for our nexus server at Kodak, while the
second uses my personal nexus server. I wanted to be able to put
<activeProfiles>
<activeProfile>nexus-kodak</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
In the parent POM of my Kodak projects, and put
<activeProfiles>
<activeProfile>nexus-kolotyluk</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
in the parent POM of my personal projects.
In the end I have been convinced that when working from home, to use a
separate Virtual Machine for all my work related development at home,
which creates a cleaner separation between work and home.
Cheers, Eric
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Re: activeProfiles
Posted by Jörg Schaible <jo...@gmx.de>.
Hi Eric,
Eric Kolotyluk wrote:
> I have two development environments: work and personal.
>
> I am trying to set up my projects so that the POM knows which profile to
> activate, but it seems you cannot put <activeProfiles> in a POM, only in
> a settings.xml file. Is there some reason for this?
>
> Is there some other Maven way to do what I want to do? How do other
> people separate work development from personal development?
What's the problem with it? If you active a profile in the settings.xml, you
can use this profile (i.e. a profile with same name) also in your POMs, you
don't need an activation anymore.
- Jörg
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