I have a war packaging Maven project, in which I have a Java properties files called myapp.properties. In this properties file, I store some parameters, for example, databas
You can have a look at this blog: http://blog.jayway.com/2010/01/21/one-artifact-with-multiple-configurations-in-maven/
They build different war-files and use different classifier (instead of different profiles).
I am not sure if it is the maven way, but it works for some of my projects.