Hi,
here is a small story about working with Maven. In my experience of 6 months
now this happened very often like this. Maven is very hard to manage, not
intuitive and error messages are incomprehensible or misleading.
The problem: We have 5 Maven projects with sub projects. For test classes, the
database connection should be defined only once, we put it into the user's
settings.xml. Now, how accessing the db-properties in test classes?
First idea: Filtering! I created properties file in the test/resources
directories and tried to filter db properties from the settings properties with
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/test/resources</directory>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
Nothing happens. Filtering seems to be possible only in main/resources. Then I
ask myself why have I to define a <directory> when only one value is working?
You could hard-code it. This is not intuitive!
Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards
Wolfgang Winter
System Analyst
