Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-21 Thread Jon Paynter
This sounds very simmilar to the setup we have here -- everything was already in property files. I found the key to simplifying things is to have and enforce a standardized naming convention. Since that was already in place when I looked into maven, picking the correct property file was trivial:

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-21 Thread Ron Wheeler
On 21/01/2011 1:19 PM, Jeff wrote: Either I'm not explaining things well enough or you are assuming something different and I think that is the confusion ... I am not building or using the application projects or source code. I'm not dealing with application deployment, they are already deployed

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-21 Thread Jeff
Either I'm not explaining things well enough or you are assuming something different and I think that is the confusion ... I am not building or using the application projects or source code. I'm not dealing with application deployment, they are already deployed via other means and processes that I

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-21 Thread Ron Wheeler
Still not sure why you need deployment or test configurations in your applications You are not the first person to build an N-tiered web application with many servers. Why can you not put debugging levels and BaseURLs in JNDI? Those seem pretty simple things to deal with. You are not the fir

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Jeff
I don't want to debate our architecture or processes since I have little to do with defining them, but its an N-tiered web application comprising from one to dozens of servers. Many of the tests are Selenium Integration tests on Windows clients hitting remote servers that are mostly Linux. We ha

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
Is there any reason why deployment and server specific configurations are mixed in with your code? This is not a good thing and usually not needed. When you configure a server, you should be able to include this information in the server configuration not in the application code. 1) The appli

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Jeff
Thanks all for the comments. If there is a better way to do what I need, then I welcome help to understand how to do it right. We have configurations we need to load for the various development and testing environments (unit and integration). I've been working to put the specific configuation in

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Wayne Fay
> I'm new to Maven and am building a POM with profiles.  I want to be able to Then you are most likely doing things "wrong." Is there no other way to build/test your app without using profiles? > Currently the value of the "config" system property is equivalent to the > value of the profile id.  

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Ron Wheeler
We have had long discussions about why profiles are not the right way to deal with environment/deployment issues. Ron On 20/01/2011 3:05 AM, Anders Hammar wrote: Not that I know of, no. In your example, why don't you just specify the value ('staging') in the confgiuration of the surefire plug

Re: Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-20 Thread Anders Hammar
Not that I know of, no. In your example, why don't you just specify the value ('staging') in the confgiuration of the surefire plugin? /Anders On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 07:52, Jeff wrote: > I'm new to Maven and am building a POM with profiles. I want to be able to > set a system property that c

Help referencing profile properties/attributes...

2011-01-19 Thread Jeff
I'm new to Maven and am building a POM with profiles. I want to be able to set a system property that contains the value of the current profile(s). Currently I have multiple profiles that each relate to different web app servers (dev, test, staging, etc.) in our dev/test environment. I want the