Hmm... Just tried specifying <createDb>false</createDb> in my settings.xml and it STILL does NOT activate any profiles! Anyone has any idea of what's going on here?
Thanks in advance for your help. Yaakov. On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Yaakov Chaikin <yaakov.chai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am clearly not understanding how properties propagate in maven... > > I have a multi-module project where I have a root pom.xml > (<packaging>pom</packaging>) and a number of child modules. > > In my root pom.xml I have this: > <properties> > <createDb>false</createDb> > </properties> > > > In one of the my child module's pom.xml I have the following: > > ... > <profiles> > <profile> > <id>SkipDbCreationIsTrue</id> > <activation> > <property> > <name>createDb</name> > <value>false</name> > </property> > </activation> > <properties> > <skipDbCreation>true</skipDbCreation> > </properties> > </profile> > > <profile> > <id>SkipDbCreationIsFalse</id> > <activation> > <property> > <name>createDb</name> > <value>true</name> > </property> > </activation> > <properties> > <skipDbCreation>false</skipDbCreation> > </properties> > </profile> > <profiles> > ... > > When I do mvn help:active-profiles neither of these profiles are > active! However, when I specify the property directly on the command > line, depending on its value, the correct profile gets activated. It's > as if 'createDb' property, which I am using to do activation, is not > there at the time maven decides which profiles to use. > > I could place the 'createDb' property into settings.xml, but I don't > want to do that for reasons outside the scope of this question. > > Can anyone spot what I am doing wrong here? I already checked the > spelling of the property in both places and it's correct... > > Any ideas anyone? > > Thanks, > Yaakov. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
