Maven Profile - Activate Profile depending on packaging

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I have a POM which declares web application stuff that is common to my projects. I use this as the parent for all web applications.

Is it possible to activate a profile only when the packaging is war? I have tried the property approach, but that doesn't work (as it isn't a system/environment property).

Since this fails the build, I can simply disable that profile when installing the POM, but I'd like it to be more intelligent on its own.

Walter

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You can simply check the existence of src/main/webapp. Each web application that uses the Maven standard directory layout should contain this folder. So you avoid unnecessary dummy files.

<profile>
    <id>custom-profile-eclipse-project-generation-webapp</id>
    <activation>
        <file>
            <exists>${basedir}/src/main/webapp</exists>
        </file>
    </activation>
    <build>
    </build>
</profile>

More precise you can also check for the the existence of ${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml. That should definitively identify a war-project.

For myself I use this configuration in my common super-pom to configure the maven-eclipse-plugin for different project types. Thats very handy to get homogenous eclipse-configurations over the same project type in our organization, especially when developers straightforwardly run eclipse:eclipse on multi-module-projects.

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