Re: project.properties and outputDir

[Marco Mistroni]

Hello all,
 sorry i pressed 'Send' befor efinishing the message
m> wrote:

hi all,
  i m trying to build an .ear and output to a deploy directory specified
in my project.properties, but M2 keeps on cojmplaining that either
i put in <outputDirectory> the value of hte property or i specify the
property via commandline -D

i have written a settings.xml file and i have placed it in my
DocumentAndSettings\Me\m2,
but still maven is complaining

i am using maven-2.0.4, here's my pom.xml and settings.xml

**** pom.xml *******
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0";
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
   <parent>
       <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
       <artifactId>project</artifactId>
       <version>1.0</version>
   </parent>
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <artifactId>jboss-seam-test</artifactId>
       <name>EAR project</name>
   <packaging>ear</packaging>
       <build>
       <plugins>
           <plugin>
               <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
               <artifactId>maven-ear-plugin</artifactId>
               <configuration>
                   <modules>
                       <ejbModule>
                           <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
                           <artifactId>ejbs</artifactId>
                           <bundleFileName>
                               ejb3-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
                           </bundleFileName>
                       </ejbModule>
                       <webModule>
                           <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
                           <artifactId>web</artifactId>
                           <bundleFileName>
                               ejb3-web.war
                           </bundleFileName>
                       </webModule>
                     </modules>
                                       <outputDirectory>${deploy.dir
}</outputDirectory>*

               </configuration>
           </plugin>
       </plugins>
   </build>

   <dependencies>
        <dependency>
           <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
       <artifactId>ejbs</artifactId>
       <version>1.0</version>
       <type>ejb</type>
      </dependency>
           <dependency>
           <groupId>ExpenseControl</groupId>
       <artifactId>web</artifactId>
       <version>1.0</version>
       <type>war</type>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>


** settings.xml ******
<settings>
 <profiles>
   <profile>
     <activation>
       <activeByDefault/>
       <property>
         <name>deployDir</name>
         <value>C:\Sw\jboss-4.0.4RC1\server\default\deploy</value>
       </property>
      </activation>
       <properties/>
     </profile>
 </profiles>

</settings>


i am running evrything by typing

mvn clean install

anyone could help?

thanks and regards
marco