Wolfgang, For test resources you should use the <testResources> element, not the <resources> element. The documentation is a bit shallow on this matter.
Asgeir On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 08:46, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > >
