Maven 2 & 3

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Dependencies, Profiles
• Labels:

  None

Here's a use-case where I believe it would make sense to allow <dependencies> to be defined for profiles in profiles.xml.

Lets says I have a web-project that sets up profiles.xml for target build environments that it can be deployed on. Target environments can each have
different J2EE containers. Now this is what happens when I setup my project for builds/deploys.

1) Set up a build control project, a minimal pom.xml that has contains SCM connection to my web-project above.

2) checks out profiles.xml first so now the build control project has a minimal pom + profiles.xml.

3) checks out the web-project under ${basedir}/target

4) I can activate a particular profile, based on which some operations can be done by a custom Plugin before an embedded instance of maven is spawned
and some goals (specific to that profile) are delegated down to the checked out project.

• Assignee:

  Unassigned

  Reporter:

  Rahul Thakur

• Created:

  19/Dec/05 10:44 PM

  Updated:

  11/Feb/10 5:27 PM

  Resolved:

  11/Feb/10 5:27 PM