How to list all activated profiles in mvn in a multimodule project

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mvn help:active-profiles only list the profiles activate within the project + system settings you call it in.

It does not list the profiles that have been enabled/activated from i.e. the parent pom.

Any any way to actually see the full list of activated profiles by other means than trial-and-error to look at what properties are enabled or not ?

Actually, `mvn help:effective-profiles` lists all profiles enabled for the _current_ project. — Andrew Logvinov, Oct 28 '12 at 15:05
Unfortunately `mvn help:effective-profiles` does not exists. It is called `mvn help:active-profiles`. — khmarbaise, Oct 29 '12 at 08:04

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 16 '13 at 16:38

Another option is mvn help:all-profiles, which also list inherited profiles.

Displays a list of available profiles under the current project. Note: it will list all profiles for a project. If a profile comes up with a status inactive then there might be a need to set profile activation switches/property.

More details in Maven's help plugin page

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '12 at 10:06

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I double-checked this and indeed, inherited profiles aren't listed when mvn help:active-profiles is being called. This is with maven-help-plugin version 2.1.1.

There is even a bug-report about this: MPH-79.

As a workaround, you can use older version:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.0.2:active-profiles ...

answered Oct 29 '12 at 10:06

Andrew Logvinov

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FYI, that bug report says that it has been fixed in mvn v 2.2 – Ashutosh Jindal May 01 '15 at 08:20

score 9 · Answer 3 · answered May 01 '18 at 08:22

Do you always want to see the active profile in your build log? Then you could add the following plugin config to the <build> section.

In this example I added the plugin to the phase 'compile'. It could easily be added to a different phase.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.1</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>show-profiles</id>
      <phase>compile</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>active-profiles</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 07 '16 at 19:23

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this works in maven 3.x mvn help:active-profiles

answered Oct 07 '16 at 19:23

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score -3 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 20 '17 at 11:28

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mvn help:effective-profiles

Works to list the active profiles

answered Jul 20 '17 at 11:28

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[ERROR] Could not find goal 'effective-profiles' in plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.2 among available goals expressions, active-profiles, effective-settings, system, effective-pom, help, all-profiles, describe, evaluate -> [Help 1] – Jolta Oct 25 '17 at 09:05

How to list all activated profiles in mvn in a multimodule project

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