According to POM schema, the <activation><property> element in <profile> will search for a system property.
I'd like to create a corporate POM with <dependencyManagement> setting some libs version. This version will depend on the target JRE, so I'd like to detect a child project targetting Java5. I don't want to use <jdk> as the developpers use Java5 JDK to run maven and eclipse, but this may not be the target JRE for the project. Does <activation><property> also work for a "property" set inside the POM <properties> ? If true, I could set <maven.compiler.source> property in the project POM and set my corporate POM as parent. Nico.
