Property « POM « Maven/Ant Q&A

1. Nested Maven properties evaluated in refering POM rather than defining POM    stackoverflow.com

I'm defining a report configuration in my parent pom which will be run in each child and grandchild project. Like so:

<reporting>
    <plugins>
       ...

2. define a POM property regarding the type of project version    stackoverflow.com

I would like in a maven2 POM to define a property with a different value if I am packaging a SNAPSHOT or a RELEASE (a non SNAPSHOT) of my project. I know ...

3. How to get the values of server defined in the settings.xml to use them in my pom.xml?    stackoverflow.com

I know I can retrieve some settings.xml parameters using properties, like, for example ${settings.localRepository} to get the location of the local repository. Now imagine my settings.xml contains the following servers definition:

<servers>
 <server>
 ...

4. Get name of maven pom file    stackoverflow.com

I am running a Maven (2) release build with with: mvn -f release.xml clean deploy and want to get the currently running pom file name (release.xml) into a property or mojo. Is ...

5. Maven: property substitution not done for /project/version tag of pom?    stackoverflow.com

http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Properties says property "values are accessible anywhere within a POM". Should this read "are accessible in most places within a POM"? I can specify the version of a dependency no problem ...

6. Automated replacement of the scm part properties of a pom    stackoverflow.com

At the moment we're going to migrating all of our cvs projects to git. Our custom script is using the git converter and everything is fine. Now i would like to ...

7. Is there an automated way to find unused properties in a pom.xml?    stackoverflow.com

We use maven resource filtering in a pretty large project. Over time the pom profiles have grown significantly and we suspect that many properties defined there are not even in use ...

8. Look up hostname from Maven    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for a way to look up hostname and set it as a property in Maven. This does not work in all environments:

...
<properties>
   <hostname>${env.HOSTNAME}</hostname>
</properties>
...

9. Escape property in pom.xml    stackoverflow.com

I would like to escape a property in pom.xml. Not in ressources, I know it is possible with a filter. For example I try to use launch4j plugin like this :

<plugin>
<groupId>org.bluestemsoftware.open.maven.plugin</groupId>
 ...

10. Inheriting properties from parent pom    stackoverflow.com

Is there a way to inherit properties from parent pom. E.g: I want to replace ${publish.dir} in child pom with the value from parent pom. parent pom: <properties> <publish.dir>/tmp/publish</publish.dir> </properties> ...

11. Can jboss-web.xml have access to properties?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to setup my project to use different virtual-host names depending on the environment. I know I could create directories with a separate jboss-web.xml file in each directory. But ...

12. How to read the pom.properties from the JAR    coderanch.com