Hello to all, I am not exactly new to maven, but I haven't had any formal training and am certainly not as experienced as many in this audience.
I have been on this mailing list for a few weeks and have noticed a lot of talk about profiles and why they should not be used. I wanted to share with you the way in which I have successfully used profiles without ever experiencing any pain. First, I don't use profiles to build separate artifacts. I only use them to do other activities. Mostly I use them to run certain tests. That way, a particular invocation can run tests that hit the database when that is appropriate. Also, sometimes I use them to do other activities such as deploy a schema to a database or start a server … again mostly as a way to prep an environment for running tests. Is that the way in which profiles should be used? I imagine that most of the pain people experience come from different artifacts being built with the same ids. Is that correct? I'd love to hear what you all think. Thanks for your time. John Kramer email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> mobile: 314.435.2370 skype: kramer.mojiva twitter: @KramerKnowsTech<https://twitter.com/KramerKnowsTech> 0xCAFEBABE00000032
