Maven Concepts

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POM

pom.xml

Profile

A profile is an alternative set of configurations which set or override default values. Profiles allow to customize a build for different environments. Profiles are configured in the pom.xml and each profile is identified with an identifier. Profiles customizes the build for different environments (e.g. production or development, different operating systems, different JDK versions, etc.)

An example of profile:

...
<profiles> 
   <profile>
     <id>production</id>
         <build>
            <plugins>
              <plugin>
                  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                  <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                  <configuration>
                      <debug>false</debug> 
                      <optimize>true</optimize>
                  </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
         </build>
   </profile>
 </profiles>
...

The profile is activated on command line with -P:

mvn -Pproduction clear install

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