Hi Danny.
I can guess that what you're missing is
<profile>
<id>prof1</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<properties>
.
.
.
</profile>
So, it's up to you to specify from command line for example, the active
profile you want.
Danny escribió:
> Hi!
>
> It seems that the profile activation isn't working for me, even though I
> explicitly tell Maven to activate it with the -P option.
>
> Background:
>
> I have an external profile file (profiles.xml) that has some properties in
> each profile section:
>
> <profiles>
> <profile>
> <id>prof1</id>
> <properties>
> <MyProp>X</MyProc>
> </properties>
> </profile>
> <profile>
> <id>prof2</id>
> <properties>
> <MyProp>Y</MyProc>
> </properties>
> </profile>
> <profile>
> <id>prof3</id>
> <properties>
> <MyProp>Z</MyProc>
> </properties>
> </profile>
> </profiles>
>
> The resource file that I want to filter contains:
>
> # app.properties
> ...
> property=${MyProp}
> ...
>
> I've already turned resource filtering on in the top-level POM.
>
> If I do 'mvn help:effective-pom -Pprof1' (I tried with and without a space
> between '-P' and 'prof1', to no effect), sure enough, the filtering seems to
> be working:
>
> <project>
> ...
> <properties>
> <MyProp>Z</MyProp>
> </properties>
> </project>
>
> I can even confirm this by looking in the processes resource file:
>
> # app.properties
> ...
> property=Z
> ...
>
> For some reason I don't understand, it doesn't matter what profile I speficy
> with the -P option, Maven will consistently use the last profile (which sets
> the value 'Z', as described above). When I try to use the command 'mvn
> help:active-profiles' it also states that it has understood that there are 3
> profiles:
>
> (output from mvn help:active-profiles)
>
> Active Profiles for Project '...':
>
> The following profiles are active:
>
> - prof1 (source: profiles.xml)
> - prof2 (source: profiles.xml)
> - prof3 (source: profiles.xml)
>
> ...
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? I suppose I could use the <activation>-tags (I have
> none specified at the moment because I'm assuming that the -P option takes
> care of that(?)) and activate a profile with 'mvn -Dprof1 ...', but that
> shouldn't be necessary, because the -P option should work, right?
>
>
>
>
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