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

This might work for you:

  
    default
    
      true
    
    
     
       
        Foo
       
     
    
    ...
  
  
    notdefault
    ...
     
      
        
            ${myProperty}
        
     
     
    ...
  

That way,

mvn clean will use "foo" as your default param. In cases when you need to override, use mvn -P notdefault -DmyProperty=something