I know that this may not address your question directly, but I suggest that you change your approach.
Rather than build two different artifacts for debugging or not debugging, I suggest that you make the a runtime configuration. Look into various logging frameworks (log4j, log back) that will allow this. They are pretty flexible and should probably help you. If they don't address your issue, you should look into using java system properties. The tag <argLine> will allow you to set them in tests run with the surefire plugin. You can also package a properties file with your code and use maven properties to filter that. However, as far as I know, Maven only has the capability to filter resources (such as the aforementioned properties file), not java source code (and if it does have that capability, I would suggest not using it as it would screw up static source tools). John Kramer email: jkra...@mojiva.com<mailto:jkra...@mojiva.com> mobile: 314.435.2370 skype: kramer.mojiva twitter: @KramerKnowsTech<https://twitter.com/KramerKnowsTech> 0xCAFEBABE00000032 From: "Nick Cuneo (ncuneo)" <ncu...@cisco.com<mailto:ncu...@cisco.com>> Reply-To: Maven Users List <users@maven.apache.org<mailto:users@maven.apache.org>> Date: Friday, November 16, 2012 16:53 PM To: "users@maven.apache.org<mailto:users@maven.apache.org>" <users@maven.apache.org<mailto:users@maven.apache.org>> Subject: Properties within source code Hi, We are attempting to migrate our build environment from being very Ant-centric, to be Maven-centric. We have a source file (Trace.java) that has a couple of variables that get set for debug/non-debug builds. The code is as follows public boolean DEBUG = ${debug.enabled}; Obviously this won’t compile as is, but with Ant we were able to replace that property at compile time so it would build the appropriate package. I’m trying to get that same functionality with Maven… I’ve looked into trying to add the file as a resource and creating the property in the pom.xml. I’ve also tried using the google-replace plugin, but that didn’t seem to work well either. Am I just not doing it right? I’m learning Maven as I go so I figured that’s a possibility. I’ve tried doing searches on the subject with google and looking through maven documentation and it feels straightforward but just not working for me. Example from pom: <properties> <debug.enabled>true</debug.enabled> </properties> <build> … <resources> <resource> <directory>${basedir}/src/trace</directory> <includes> <include>Trace.java</include> </includes> </resource> </resources> I see in the log that it’s doing something with the file, maybe not what I was intending though: [INFO] Copying 1 resource Any help would be appreciative. Thanks, Nick [Description: http://www.cisco.com/web/europe/images/email/signature/logo02.jpg] Nicholas Cuneo Software Engineer SPVTG ncu...@cisco.com<mailto:ncu...@cisco.com> Phone: 1-714-434-2344 Mobile: 1-949-243-4952 3500 Hyland Ave Costa Mesa, CA United States Cisco.com<http://www.cisco.com/> Download vCard[Description: Virtual Card File]<http://wwwin-tools.cisco.com/dir/vcard/ncuneo.vcf> [Description: Think before you print.]Think before you print. This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html
