Issue
I have the following profile below, instead of using activeByDefault I would like to active it through a property instead. I saw this comment (https://stackoverflow.com/a/18890159/1959534) in passing about being able to do so through maven assembly plugin but I couldn't figure out how to specify that. Any input on how to accomplish this?
<project ...>
...
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>myProfile</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<!-- Extra dependency just for this profile -->
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</profile>
</profiles>
</project>
Solution
Figured it out! Defined a system variable in the project's /.mvn/jvm.config and then changed the activation step to be through property instead of activeByDefault. Then used this tips to throw config out to my .properties file: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14386303/1959534
jvm.config
-Dmy.property=true
pom.xml
<profiles>
<profile>
...
<activation>
<property>
<name>my.property</name>
<value>true</value>
</property>
</activation>
</profile>
</profiles>
Answered By - David S
Answer Checked By - Gilberto Lyons (JavaFixing Admin)