Maven - Profiles (Profiles.xml)

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Profiles give the ability of a project to change settings configuration depending on the environment where it is being built.

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Example

A project built for a test environment may point to a different database than that of the final deployment. Or dependencies may be pulled from different repositories based upon the JDK version used.

Management

Execution

Excluding

mvn -P !public clean package

Including

mvn -P public clean package

Several

mvn  -P profile-1,profile-2

List

mvn help:all-profiles

Profile Id: repository-definition (Active: true , Source: settings.xml)
  Profile Id: get-hadoop-windows-native-lib (Active: false , Source: pom)
  Profile Id: assembly-windows-zip (Active: false , Source: pom)
  Profile Id: assembly-windows-unzip (Active: false , Source: pom)
  Profile Id: assembly-linux (Active: false , Source: pom)
  Profile Id: private-obfuscation (Active: false , Source: settings.xml)
  Profile Id: deploy (Active: false , Source: pom)