September 2008
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A profile in Maven is an alternative set of configuration values
that set or override default values. Using a profile,
you can customize a build for different environments. Profiles are
configured in the pom.xml and are
given an identifier. Then you can run Maven with a command-line flag
that tells Maven to execute goals in a specific profile. The pom.xml shown in Example 11-1 uses a production profile to override the default settings of the Compiler plugin.
Example 11-1. Using a Maven profile to override production compiler settings
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>org.sonatype.mavenbook</groupId>
<artifactId>simple</artifactId>
<packaging>jar</packaging>
<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>simple</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>production</id>
<build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> ...