Maven Conditional Build Section with Profile?

Question

I am building a Flex application with Maven and the Flex Mojos plugin. Now I want to compile an alternative version of the application with some additional libraries to enable automatic functional testing. For this I need to change 2 things in pom:

• additional dependencies
• additional configuration of the Flex Mojos plugin in the build section

I created a profile in pom, configured to create an alternative version, and added additional dependencies. However, I am wondering how I can specify the optional Flex Mojos plugin configuration in the build section.

Should I just override (copy and modify) the complete plugin configuration from the build section to my profile or is there another way to do this?

Answer 1

Yes, copy the plugin configuration to your profile. Define new dependencies as well. Shared configuration values ​​between two plugin configurations for the same plugin can be delegated to the common properties that you define in the pom element <properties>to allow setting values ​​in a common place.