Set maven property from plugin

Question

I\'ve read some questions here about how to set a property (most of them talked about the version number for an application) from a maven plugin. It seems there\'s no easy

Answer 1

Maven sets properties in initialize phase. I assume that in that phase maven loads system properties. And after that maven doesn't load system properties again. If you try to add a system property after this phase than it's not loaded.

Try to run your plugin in validate phase.