[Akumadevil]

Hi, what is the easiest way to tell MyEclipse to use the profile properties from the pom.xml when I start the application server?

pom.xml:

...
<profiles>
   <profile>
      <id>dev</id>
      <properties>
         <foo>bar</foo>
         ...
      </properties>
   </profile>
</profiles>
...

At the moment it throws an error because a field in one of my properties relies on the pom.xml, which is not being populated.

properties file:

...
something=${foo}
...

In the past we used maven to run the project through a Jetty server rather than deploying and starting the app server through MyEclipse (which is preferred).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[support-joy]

Akumadevil,

Add the maven-resources-plugin (please note that it is a maven-war plugin even in case it is a war)
Then add the following node in POM.xml
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
</configuration>
</plugin>

and also add the following node
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>

The resources node will specify the resources directroy (i.e the property file which needs to be populated)

Create a profile and use this resource plugin to substitute the value in the property file.For details refer – http://www.manydesigns.com/documentation/tutorials/using-maven-profiles-and-resource-filtering.html

[Akumadevil]

Hi,

The example link relies on building the package through maven specifying the profile (e.g. “mvn package -P development”).

I normally use the MyEclipse “Add Deployment” feature to build the webapp — can I configure MyEclipse to automatically run the relevant maven command on deployment?

[deeeed]

Did you find out how to do it?
I have the exact same issue, I can run my profile through the command line but not via myeclipse.
I added my profile into my project preferences into the Maven4Myeclipse config.

[support-swapna]

deeeed,

Your query is answered here. Please follow it up :
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/how-to-run-profiles-within-pom-in-myeclipse/#post-316562

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