The Parameter annotation only works on the Mojo, not inside the complex object.
What you can do is the following: private ComplexObject complexObect = new ComplexObject() @Parameter( property = "acme.name") private String name; public void setName( String name ) { this.complexObject.setName( name ); } Most important: the setter must be public. Now the setter is called instead of the field being set (the field acts as a marker and will stay null, unless you improve setName()) Robert On 30-7-2020 08:21:49, Alexander Broekhuis <a.broekh...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi All, I am using a plugin that uses several complex types as configuration. This all looks nice when having a single plugin config, with properties grouped together. But now I want to be able to override several of these properties via the commandline or via a profile. Afaik, setting complex properties is not possible on the commandline. What seems to work is to add a set(String) method to my complex type and use some string formatting to set the property as one string. Is this correct, or is there a better way to do this? What bothers me most is that I need to set a list of complex types. For a list the comma is used as a separator, so for the actual complex type some other character is needed, which might make the format and parsing overly complicated. Perhaps there is a cleaner solution.. Likewise, instead of setting properties via the commandline, can I somehow add complex types to the properties section of the pom? Simply adding an xml element to it results in errors. That it is not easily possible via the commandline makes sense to me, but I somehow expected that it would be possible to set them in the properties section :(. To continue on this, in my pom I use several profiles to have different configurations for plugins, and here I have the same issue. Is it possible to have complex types in profiles? I know I can create a complete new plugin configuration, but that results in a lot of duplication, which makes the pom file quite long. TIA! -- Met vriendelijke groet, Alexander Broekhuis