Default build profile for Maven

Question

I have added profiling to my Maven project.

        <profile>
            <id>da</id>                
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>live</id>
        </profile>
        <profile>
            <id>dev</id>
        </profile>

When I give the command mvn clean install without specifying the build profile. I need the dev profile to be build by default.

How can I achieve this?

score 175 · Accepted Answer · edited May 09 '21 at 03:15

175

By using the attribute activeByDefault you will be able to select a default profile in Maven when no other profile is selected with the -P parameter.

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>da</id>                
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>live</id>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>dev</id>
        <activation>
            <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
        </activation>
    </profile>
</profiles>

See Maven Introduction to Profiles documentation

edited May 09 '21 at 03:15

Jose Da Silva Gomes

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answered Aug 06 '12 at 07:48

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Beware of [Does using activeByDefault go against maven best practices?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16167206/does-using-activebydefault-go-against-maven-best-practices) – Vadzim Jan 23 '17 at 13:27

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 02 '20 at 10:15

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You can also activate specific profile by running

mvn clean install -Pprod

or

mvn clean install -Pdev

edited Oct 02 '20 at 10:15

pawello2222

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answered Jan 23 '19 at 16:35

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"When I give the command mvn clean install without specifying the build profile" – italktothewind Jun 26 '19 at 16:46

Default build profile for Maven

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