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Posted to users@maven.apache.org by John Casey <jd...@commonjava.org> on 2007/06/03 16:40:32 UTC
Re: profile activation based on property <=> in POM
Unfortunately, this doesn't work in Maven 2.0.x.
The reason is that the profile activator actually uses
System.getProperty( "project.target.jre" ), not project.getProperties
().getProperty( "project.target.jre" ).
It's actually a fairly involved process to check the POM for
properties during profile activation (you probably wouldn't think
so...). I've added the technical ability to do this in Maven trunk
(2.1.x), but it still requires a custom profile activator. If you
look at the c-builds code in the native-mojo project:
http://svn.codehaus.org/native-mojo/c-builds/trunk
you should see a directory called:
plugins/cbuild-profile-activators
This contains an example of precisely the type of profile activation
you're trying to accomplish, but it only works on Maven trunk (which
is currently pre-alpha).
Sorry for any confusion.
-john
On May 28, 2007, at 5:03 AM, nicolas de loof wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to have a set of profiles in my corporate parent POM for
> various
> maven usage. To enable them depending on projects I'd like to set a
> <property> in the project POM to enable the profile :
>
> example :
> - corporate parent pom :
>
> <profile>
> <id>Java5</id>
> <activation>
> <property>
> <name>project.target.jre</name>
> <value>java5</value>
> </property>
> </activation>
> <properties>
> <maven.compile.source>1.5</maven.compile.source>
> <maven.compile.target>1.5</maven.compile.target>
> ...
>
> - project POM :
>
> <properties>
> <project.target.jre>java5</project.target.jre>
> </properties>
>
>
> This doesn't work as I expected. Is there any way to enable a
> profile in
> parent POM from a child POM ?
>
> Nico.
---
John Casey
Committer and PMC Member, Apache Maven
mail: jdcasey at commonjava dot org
blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john
Re: profile activation based on property <=> in POM
Posted by nicolas de loof <ni...@gmail.com>.
Thanks for this detailled reply.
I'll have to find an alternative to profiles. Ability to activate parent-POM
profiles from a POM would be really nice as it would enable pulling up lot's
of common configuration to corporate POMs.
For now, I'll use an archetype to add all the profiles to the generated
project POM with activation based on <activeByDefault>, so that projects can
easily enable/disable some configuration.
Nico.
2007/6/3, John Casey <jd...@commonjava.org>:
>
> Unfortunately, this doesn't work in Maven 2.0.x.
>
> The reason is that the profile activator actually uses
> System.getProperty( "project.target.jre" ), not project.getProperties
> ().getProperty( "project.target.jre" ).
>
> It's actually a fairly involved process to check the POM for
> properties during profile activation (you probably wouldn't think
> so...). I've added the technical ability to do this in Maven trunk
> (2.1.x), but it still requires a custom profile activator. If you
> look at the c-builds code in the native-mojo project:
>
> http://svn.codehaus.org/native-mojo/c-builds/trunk
>
> you should see a directory called:
>
> plugins/cbuild-profile-activators
>
> This contains an example of precisely the type of profile activation
> you're trying to accomplish, but it only works on Maven trunk (which
> is currently pre-alpha).
>
> Sorry for any confusion.
>
> -john
>
>
> On May 28, 2007, at 5:03 AM, nicolas de loof wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to have a set of profiles in my corporate parent POM for
> > various
> > maven usage. To enable them depending on projects I'd like to set a
> > <property> in the project POM to enable the profile :
> >
> > example :
> > - corporate parent pom :
> >
> > <profile>
> > <id>Java5</id>
> > <activation>
> > <property>
> > <name>project.target.jre</name>
> > <value>java5</value>
> > </property>
> > </activation>
> > <properties>
> > <maven.compile.source>1.5</maven.compile.source>
> > <maven.compile.target>1.5</maven.compile.target>
> > ...
> >
> > - project POM :
> >
> > <properties>
> > <project.target.jre>java5</project.target.jre>
> > </properties>
> >
> >
> > This doesn't work as I expected. Is there any way to enable a
> > profile in
> > parent POM from a child POM ?
> >
> > Nico.
>
> ---
> John Casey
> Committer and PMC Member, Apache Maven
> mail: jdcasey at commonjava dot org
> blog: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john
>
>
>