How to copy a resource or another in Maven depending on the target environment?

Question

I have to create test war and production war, which will have a different log4j.properties file in the WEB-INF directory. I have these files

Answer 1

• Use Maven profiles (http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html)

• Create a "dev" and "prod" profile, selecting an alternate set of resources for each profile. Make Dev active by default.

  
      
          dev
          
              true
          
          
              
                  
                      src/main/resources/dev
                  
              
          
      
      
          prod
          
              
                  
                      src/main/resources/prod
                  
              
          
      
  
  

• Build using the desired profile via: mvn install -Pdev or mvn install -Pprod