Don't worry - I am doing things "The Maven Way" with properties in the root
pom.xml. However, for this particular application, I need to override a
property in settings.xml (I'm on a Mac and need to connect to a SQL Server
instance not on "localhost"). The problem is, I have another application
that uses the same property name (this can't be that rare, can it?). So when
I override it in settings.xml, it overrides all my projects that use that
property name.
Matt
Wayne Fay wrote:
>
> You are really not encouraged to use application-specific properties
> in a settings.xml file, as your builds will not be portable. Instead,
> these kinds of properties should be placed directly in the pom (parent
> or children as appropriate) of the project you are working on.
>
> I use a similar process for our Ant builds, with project-specific
> properties in my user home loaded first, then all-projects properties,
> etc. I'm pretty sure this is a common pattern across Ant users.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/12/07, mraible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Since there's been no answers to this question, I'll assume the answer is
>> "No, it's not possible to use settings.xml to have application-specific
>> properties."
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> mraible wrote:
>> >
>> > I have a number of properties for database settings in my root pom.xml:
>> >
>> > <!-- Database settings -->
>> >
>> >
>> <dbunit.dataTypeFactoryName>org.dbunit.dataset.datatype.DefaultDataTypeFactory</dbunit.dataTypeFactoryName>
>> > <dbunit.operation.type>CLEAN_INSERT</dbunit.operation.type>
>> >
>> >
>> <hibernate.dialect>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</hibernate.dialect>
>> > <jdbc.groupId>mysql</jdbc.groupId>
>> > <jdbc.artifactId>mysql-connector-java</jdbc.artifactId>
>> > <jdbc.version>5.0.3</jdbc.version>
>> >
>> <jdbc.driverClassName>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</jdbc.driverClassName>
>> >
>> >
>> <jdbc.url><![CDATA[jdbc:mysql://localhost/tutorial?createDatabaseIfNotExist=true&useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8]]></jdbc.url>
>> > <jdbc.username>root</jdbc.username>
>> > <jdbc.password></jdbc.password>
>> >
>> > This works great when I have a single project. However, I've started
>> to
>> > develop two applications with this setup, and I need to locally
>> override
>> > the jdbc.url for one of my projects. Is it possible to do this on an
>> > application-specific basis w/o affecting both applications. AFAIK,
>> > settings.xml doesn't have anything fancy like (does it?):
>> >
>> > <activation>
>> > <property>
>> > <name>${pom.artifactId}</name>
>> > <value>projecttoactivatefor</value>
>> > </property>
>> > </activation>
>> >
>> > With Ant, I was able to accomplish this using:
>> >
>> > <!-- Load user overrides -->
>> > <property
>> file="${user.home}/.${ant.project.name}-build.properties"/>
>> > <property file="${user.home}/.build.properties"/>
>> > <property file="build.properties"/>
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Matt
>> >
>>
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