Activating/deactivating a Maven profile

A profile can be specified in pom.xml or settings.xml. Each profile may be created for a specific purpose; for instance, to run on a particular platform or to run in an integration environment. All profiles may not need to run in all cases. Maven provides a mechanism to activate and deactivate a profile as required.

Getting ready

Use the project where we created the profile to add a new Maven profile section.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps to activate/deactivate a Maven profile:

  1. To deactivate a profile, set the following value in the activeByDefault element:
    <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
  2. Run the Maven command to check if the profile is active:
    mvn help:active-profiles

    The output for ...

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