How to access maven.build.timestamp for resource filtering

Question

I am using maven 3.0.4 and would like to make the build timestamp accessible to my application. For this, I\'m putting a placeholder in a .properties file and l

Answer 1

I have discovered this article, explaining that due to a bug in maven, the build timestamp does not get propagated to the filtering. The workaround is to wrap the timestamp in another property:

   ${maven.build.timestamp}
   yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm

Filtering then works as expected for

buildTimestamp=${timestamp}