Can I force Maven 2 to require a property to be specified on the command line?

Question

I\'m setting up a maven build, and the destination server needs to be specified on the command line as a property (which is then used to select the appropriate profile), eg<

Answer 1

Maybe you could use such a workaround: in Maven you can activate a profile if some property is not set:

...
    
        
            failure_profile
            
                
                    !env
                
            
        
    

Then you shall force this profile always fail, e.g. using maven-enforcer-plugin:

    failure_profile
    ...
    
        
          
            org.apache.maven.plugins
            maven-enforcer-plugin
            
              
                enforce
                
                  enforce
                
                
                  
                    
                  
                  true
                
              
            
          
        
      

If you don't provide -Denv build will then fail:

[INFO] [enforcer:enforce {execution: enforce}]
[WARNING] Rule 0: org.apache.maven.plugins.enforcer.AlwaysFail failed with message:
Always fails!
[INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR

Well, it's much more verbose then Ant, but pure Maven :)