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

To elaborate on edbrannin's alternate solution:

  4.0.0
  com.yourcompany
  yourproject
  1.0-SNAPSHOT
  
    
      
        maven-antrun-plugin
        
          
            checkParam
            initialize
            run
            
              
                
              
            
          
        
      
    
  

will give you the following output:

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] An Ant BuildException has occured: 'env' property must be set

IMHO the most straightforward way to do it (the one I'd go for personally).

You could even control a set of allowed values using a nested containing and tags (see the Ant manual: http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/conditions.html)