Setting default values for custom Maven 2 properties

Question

I have a Maven pom.xml with a plugin that I want to be able to control on the command line. Everything works otherwise fine, except even after searching the net a while I ca

Answer 1

You can have the property default value defined in / or in a profile like shown below. When you supply the property value on command line with -DmyProperty=anotherValue then it will override the definition from the POM. That is, all definitions of property values in the POM are set only a default value for the properties.

    ...
    
        defaultValue            
    
    ...
       
          ${myProperty}
       
    ...