Our team is producing a number of artifacts, some of which are considered "official" and others "unofficial". We want to have a separate repository for each. What I'd like to do is define both repositories in the parent pom, then each project will deploy to the correct repository based on a property set in its pom. However, I can't make this work. In fact, when I set up a profile in a pom to be active based on a property, I can only make that profile active if I set the property on the command line. If the property is set in the <properties> element of the pom, it doesn't activate the profile. Am I doing something wrong here? Should the pom property be enough to activate the profile? Is there a better way to have each project decide which of the two repositories to deploy to without copying the distributionManagement section to every pom? ..David..
