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Maven profiles enable your pom to build your project with different build options .

Here I tried to overwrite some default configuration files with profile specific configuration

how to use it

mvn package -Ddevelopment

copy src/main/conf/development/mysql.properties to target/classes/META-INF/mysql.properties

mvn package -Dproduction

copy src/main/conf/development/mysql.properties to target/classes/META-INF/mysql.properties

<profiles>
<profile>
<id>development</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>development</name>
</property>
</activation>
<build>
<plugins>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<taskdef name="native2ascii"
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.Native2Ascii"
classpathref="maven.dependency.classpath">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="maven.dependency.classpath"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<delete dir="${basedir}/target/classes"
includes="**/*.properties"/>
<native2ascii src="${basedir}/src/main/resources"
dest="${basedir}/target/classes"
includes="**/*.properties"
encoding="ISO-8859-9"/>
<copy file="${basedir}/src/main/conf/development/mysql.properties"
tofile="${basedir}/target/classes/META-INF/mysql.properties"
overwrite="true"/>

</tasks>

</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>
</build>

</profile>
<profile>
<id>production</id>
<activation>
<property>
<name>production</name>
</property>
</activation>
<build>
<plugins>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>process-resources</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<configuration>
<tasks>
<taskdef name="native2ascii"
classname="org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.Native2Ascii"
classpathref="maven.dependency.classpath">
<classpath>
<pathelement path="maven.dependency.classpath"/>
</classpath>
</taskdef>
<delete dir="${basedir}/target/classes"
includes="**/*.properties"/>
<native2ascii src="${basedir}/src/main/resources"
dest="${basedir}/target/classes"
includes="**/*.properties"
encoding="ISO-8859-9"/>
<copy file="${basedir}/src/main/conf/production/mysql.properties"
tofile="${basedir}/target/classes/META-INF/mysql.properties"
overwrite="true"/>
</tasks>

</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>run</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>

</plugin>

</plugins>
</build>

</profile>

</profiles>

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