Maven Properties
You can use Maven properties in a pom.xml file or in any resource that is
being processed by the Maven Resource plugin’s filtering
features. A property is always surrounded by ${ and
}. For example, to reference the
project.version property, one would write:
${project.version}Some implicit properties are available in any Maven project, namely:
project.*Maven Project Object Model. You can use the
project.*prefix to reference values in a Maven POM.settings.*Maven settings. You use the
settings.*prefix to reference values from your Maven settings in ~/.m2/settings.xml.env.*Environment variables such as
PATHandM2_HOMEcan be referenced using theenv.*prefix.- System properties
Any property that can be retrieved from the
System.getProperty()method can be referenced as a Maven property.
In addition to these implicit properties, a Maven POM, Maven settings, or a Maven profile can define a set of arbitrary, user-defined properties. The following sections provide more detail on the various properties available in a Maven project.
Maven Project Properties
When a Maven Project Property is referenced, the property name
is referencing a property of the Maven Project Object
Model. Specifically, you are referencing a property of the
org.apache.maven.model.Model class that is
being exposed as the implicit variable project. When you reference a
property using this implicit variable, you are using simple dot
notation to reference a bean property of the
Model object. For example, when ...