Is there a way to capture user input in maven and assign it to a maven property?

Question

1. Is there a way to pause the maven execution flow to provide a command prompt so user can input text.
2. Then I would like the provided text to be stored in a ma

Answer 1

If you add a property in your pom like so:

And use it in your pom somewhere like this:

${db.password}

Then you can set the property from command line:

$ mvn -Ddb.password="DonaldDuck" install

But it is not interactive like a command prompt.