You need to configure filtering for the file you want filtered.
Have a look at the war plugin for how to define which files get filtered
2009/3/30 James Depaul
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> I've searched the archives for this but no luck -
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> I need to build my web.xml file with specific values based on the target
> environment for which I'm performing the build. Therefore, I'd like maven
> to perform some variable substitution when I run the mvn install goal. I'm
> trying to use profiles for this (though I obviously lack solid
> understanding of profiles at this point). Here is what I did:
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> I've setup 3 profiles in the parent pom.xml file like this:
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>dev
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> true
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>dev_values...
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>qa
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>qa_values...
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>prod
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> prod_values...
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> In my web.xml file I currently have something like this:
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>contextConfigLocation
>${app.context.parm} <-- need the
> variable substitution HERE...
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> I then run mvn -Pqa install goal, hoping that maven will insert the proper
> application context values into this placeholder based on the profile
> that's active, but so far this does not work for me... please tell me
> what else I'm missing to make this work.
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> Thanks,
> James
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