Hi all We're trying to set up a set of maven projects which can be used with both spring 2.5.x and spring 3.0.x. Mostly our applications are currently using 2.5.6 atm, but we'd like to gradually move them over to 3.0.x as time goes on. Rather than have our libraries and apps hard-code the versions of the various spring modules, spring security modules and the compatible junit library, I'm trying to put those version numbers into our parent pom under spring2/spring3 profiles with <dependencyManagement> sections which can then be activated project by project. This only works if specifying that profile on the command line, though. There appears to be no other way to activate the parent pom profile:
- I've tried creating a profiles.xml and adding the id to the <activeProfiles> section, but this appears not to work unless the profile is also declared in that file, and if I declare it, the information from the parent pom is then ignored. Having this setup working would be the ideal, as I don't want the profile getting switched off if I happen to activate another profile. - I've tried defining the profile again the child pom and marking it <activeByDefault>. This wouldn't be ideal, since activating any other profile would switch it off, but it doesn't work anyway. - I've tried creating a file and activating the profile by file existence. - I've even tried setting a property in the child pom, but it seems that this is read too late in the process. I really *don't* want to have to specify the profile name on the command line every time. It's not something that is going to change often, and it's easy for one of our devs (including me!) to accidentally leave off. We've considered having the different spring settings in different intermediate pom projects, but we plan to have other children of our parent on an orthogonal axis (e.g. one for web apps etc, one for webstart etc). Lack of mixins or an equivalent in maven is kinda hurting us. Is there any way to activate this parent profile for every build of a dependent project? Am I going about this the wrong way? Surely we aren't the only people trying to define a coherent set of dependencies in a non-hardcoded fashion... Any suggestions gratefully accepted! Thanks Tom Tom Dunstan Senior Analyst/Programmer SACE Board of South Australia 60 Greenhill Road, Wayville, SA 5034 P +61 8 8372 7543 F +61 8 8372 7438 E [email protected] W www.sace.sa.edu.au <http://www.sace.sa.edu.au/> <http://www.sace.sa.edu.au/> SACE The information may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone apart from the addressee or his or her delegate is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient any disclosure, copying, distribution, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error please advise the author immediately. P Please consider the environment before printing this email. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
