Thanks for the tip - I was able to use a profiles.xml file in my local
project directory to get the behavior I wanted. Now I'm only overriding the
property for a single project, and as long as I don't check it in to SVN,
everyone else retains the default behavior from pom.xml. Another thing I
tried was to use <file> activation in settings.xml (because there are
different files in the 2 Maven projects), but that didn't seem to work.
Here's what I used:
<activation>
<file>
<exists>${basedir}/lib/install.sh</exists>
</file>
</activation>
Thanks for the help Wayne - you solved my problem.
Matt
Wayne Fay wrote:
>
> Have you considered using a profiles.xml file (checked into SCM) which
> contains settings specific to each person's environment? Then you
> would use -Pmrmac which would specify the SQL server on another box,
> while -Pmrxp would specify a local SQL server etc.
>
> This profiles.xml file would be available for everyone to read/write
> but they would be responsible to only edit their piece of the config.
> And you could have a generic config that is used for the common
> developer environment with generic data. I'm not sure if this would
> solve all your problems, though, as it would require you to copy this
> profile.xml file to multiple locations in your SCM and potentially
> keep them all in-sync.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 3/12/07, mraible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I've read this page quite a few times and the answer still doesn't jump
>> out
>> at me. If I have two Maven projects that are completely unrelated, but
>> they
>> use the same property name - how do I override this property's value for
>> one
>> project, but not for the other?
>>
>> In other words, I want "jdbc.url" to have "localhost" for most projects
>> on
>> my system. And in the SVN version of this other project, I have
>> "localhost". However, because I need to connect to a Windows/SQL Server
>> box
>> for this one project, I need to change <jdbc.url> to have "xpboxname"
>> instead of localhost. If I use any sort of system properties, that
>> applies
>> to all projects. If I modify the pom.xml, that changes things for
>> everyone
>> (which doesn't need to happen because I'm on the only one on a Mac).
>>
>> I'm all for a workaround, but the only two options I see right now are:
>>
>> 1. Comment out the <activeByDefault> setting in pom.xml when I want to
>> work
>> on other projects (not the one that needs XP).
>> 2. Change /etc/hosts so localhost resolves to my XP box.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> Wayne Fay wrote:
>> >
>> > It might be useful to review this documentation to make sure you're
>> > doing it "the one true way". ;-)
>> >
>> >
>> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>> > On 3/12/07, mraible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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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