Yes, it is. "-Dmygroup-myartifact.version=xxx" However, for your example it would be a very bad thing as your pom will not be consumable by any client.
/Anders On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 10:37, Geir Gullestad Pettersen <gei...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to inject properties into pom.xml from the command line at > runtime? > > consider this dependency: > > <dependencies> > <dependency> > <groupId>mygroup</groupId> > <artifactId>myartifact</artifactId> > <version>${mygroup-myartifact.version}</version> > <type>war</type> > </dependency> > </dependencies> > > ${mygroup-myartifact.version} can of course be set in the <properties> tag, > but I need to be able to change the version number without changing > pom.xml. > This should peferrably be done from command line - is there a way to set > properties from commandline? > > Thanks, > Geir >