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Mastering Apache Maven 3
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Mastering Apache Maven 3

by Prabath Siriwardena
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
298 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
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POM properties

There are six types of properties that you can use within a Maven application POM file:

  • Built-in properties
  • Project properties
  • Local settings
  • Environment variables
  • Java system properties
  • Custom properties

It is always recommended that you use properties, instead of hardcoding values in application POM files. Let''s look at a few examples.

Let's take the application POM file inside the Apache Axis2 distribution module, available at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/axis/axis2/java/core/trunk/modules/distribution/pom.xml. This defines all the artifacts created in the Axis2 project that need to be included in the final distribution. All the artifacts share the same groupId tag as well as the version tag of the distribution module. This is a ...

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