Access maven properties defined in the pom

Question

How do I access maven properties defined in the pom in a normal maven project, and in a maven plugin project?

Answer 1

Maven already has a solution to do what you want:

Get MavenProject from just the POM.xml - pom parser?

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Model model = null;
FileReader reader = null;
MavenXpp3Reader mavenreader = new MavenXpp3Reader();

try {
     reader = new FileReader(pomfile); // <-- pomfile is your pom.xml
     model = mavenreader.read(reader);
     model.setPomFile(pomfile);
}catch(Exception ex){
     // do something better here
     ex.printStackTrace()
}

MavenProject project = new MavenProject(model);
project.getProperties() // <-- thats what you need