Using custom properties with Maven site

[octalpus <hw...@gmail.com>]

Hi all!

Does anyone know of a way to allow the Maven 2 Site Plugin
(http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-site-plugin/) to use defined custom
properties within a pom.xml?  For example, 

<project>
  ...
  <properties>
    <parentVersion>0.0.4</parentVersion>
  </properties>

  <groupId>aGroupID</groupId>
  <artifactId>anArtifactID</artifactId>
  <version>${parentVersion}</version>
  ...
</project>

If I try to run "mvn site" against this pom, the site build fails.  I can
see from the error logs that Maven site:site is trying to resolve artifacts
without properly replacing the custom property:

[INFO] [site:site]
Downloading:
http://host/repository/aGroupID/anArtifactID/${parentVersion}/anArtifactID-${parentVersion}.pom

I know I can make this work by passing the custom property on the command
line ("mvn site -DparentVersion=0.0.4"), but I would like to re-use the
already defined property from the pom file.  From my digging, it looks like
custom properties are resolved during the "process-sources" and
"process-resources" phases, of the default build lifecycle.  Since the site
plugin is handled in a different build lifecycle, I'm assuming these phases
are not called.  Does anyone know of another way around this?

Thanks very much!
octalpus.
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