Disable maven plugins when using a specific profile

Question

I\'m looking to find a way of disabling a plugin execution if running with a particular profile.

This is the opposite of running a plugin if a profile is selected.

Answer 1

• Define your pom so that is has only the plugins you need in dev mode
• Define a dev profile
• Define a production profile which contains all plugins you want/need
• Define the production profile as default

example pom:

  
    production

    
      true
    

    
      
        
      
    
    

    
      dev
      
    

To run in Dev Mode you can call the following:

mvn -Pdev compile

To run in Production Mode just use the normal steps:

mvn compile

In case you don't want/need to define anything special in your dev profile, you can omit its declaration and call your Dev Mode like this (! disables a profile):

mvn -P!production compile

Be aware: you may need to escape the exclamation mark since it is a special character in bash:

mvn -P\!production compile