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Author: Bruno Borges <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Apr 27 00:53:02 2019 -0700
Update configure.md (#81)
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The configuration for Apache Maven usage itself and projects built with
resides
in a number of places:
-* `MAVEN_OPTS` environment variable:
+## `MAVEN_OPTS` environment variable:
This variable contains parameters used to start up the JVM running Maven and
can
be used to supply additional options to globally to Maven. E.g. JVM memory
settings could be defined with the value `-Xms256m -Xmx512m`.
-* `settings.xml` file:
+## `settings.xml` file:
Located in USER_HOME/.m2 the settings files is designed to contain any
configuration for Maven usage across projects.
-* `.mvn` folder:
+## `.mvn` folder:
Located with in the projects top level folder, the files `maven.config` and
`extensions.xml`
contain project specific configuration for running Maven.
+### `.mvn/maven.config` file:
+
+This file allows developers to drop in parameters that will always be present
in any
+execution of `mvn <goal>` of the given project. This would make unecessary to
add
+parameters in every command-line call.
+
+For example, to always use a specific profile and demand that the build only
fails
+in the end, add the following:
+
+```
+--fail-at-end -P local-test-all-modules
+```
+
+## Other guides
The following guides contain further information to specific configuration
aspects:
