Maven: Pass activation properties in command line

In my previous post ‘Profile Activation’, I explained how to activate a profile based on some properties.

For example,

<profile>
   <id>production</id>
   <activation>
      <property>
         <name>environment.type</name>
         <value>prod</value>
      </property>
   </activation>
</profile>

‘production’ profile will be activated, if there is a system property ‘environment.type’ with value ‘prod’.

You can also pass these variables at command line.

pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
   <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
   <groupId>org.selflearningjava</groupId>
   <artifactId>helloworld</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
   <version>1</version>
   <name>helloworld</name>
   <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
   <dependencies>
      <dependency>
         <groupId>junit</groupId>
         <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
         <version>3.8.1</version>
         <scope>test</scope>
      </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   
   <profiles>
   
      <profile>
   <id>production</id>
   <activation>
            <property>
    <name>environment.type</name>
    <value>prod</value>
   </property>
         </activation>
      </profile>
  
    <profile>
   <id>testing</id>
   <activation>
             <property>
    <name>environment.type</name>
    <value>test</value>
   </property>
         </activation>
      </profile>
       
    <profile>
   <id>dev</id>
         <activation>
            <property>
    <name>environment.type</name>
    <value>dev</value>
   </property>
         </activation>
      </profile>
   
   </profiles>
   
</project>

You can activate ‘testing’ profile by executing below command.

mvn clean install -Denvironment.type=testing

You can activate ‘production’ profile by executing below command.

mvn clean install -Denvironment.type=prod

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