We've trouble creating a concept for maven using subsystems.
In the attached pdf you can see a maven/subsystem concept. In short, we've got a component based software which is based on quiet a lot of components (each component is a maven project). Those components are bundled in subsystems. Every subsystem features a parent pom which contains all components of this subsystem as a snapshot version. The snapshot versions are managed by the pom depmgmt-dev-x in all subsystems. The release versions are managed by the pom depmgmt-rel-x in all subsystems. As you can see project Z retrieves dependecy versions from depmgmt-dev-x & depmgmt-rel-x from the subsystems X & Y. Our plan is that we only want the subsystem a developer currently is working with snapshot versions, all other needed subsystems by the project, in this case project Z, are only available with their released components. e.g for working with subystem X, you need to set in user settings.xml: <activeProfile>subsystem-x</activeProfile> In this case profile subsystem-x gets activated in Z(parent) and resolves the snapshot dependencies versions from depmgmt-dev-x & the released dependencies versions from depmgmt-rel-y by dependency management. This is simular to the "reproduce example project" I've uploaded in http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4538. Not exactely the same, though. I was told activating dependencies by settings.xml isn't a good idea and like the issue above demonstrates, it doesn't work properly, either. So I could go ahead and activate the profile "subsystem-x" by a CLI property. This would also work, but isn't really comfortable to working with in IDE's because you had to set this for every component by hand or the IDE won't find any dependency version. Setting these properties in the settings.xml for profile activation won't work, it's also not by design. So how to easily activate profile "subsystem-x" for maven & maven embedder in IDE's? Do you have any best practice tip for solving our problem? I would really appreciate your help & please ask if my description of the diagram is too unclear Chris
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