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

I took sal's approach but flatten it a bit.

  
    default
    
      true
    
    
     
       
        LATEST
       
     
    
  

Now you have 2 options:

1. Using default value: MVN install (all $version will be replaced with LATEST)

2. Using own value: MVN install -P! Default -Dversion=0.9 (all $version will be 0.9)