Question

I had to read property shared by a multiple maven project, for this purpose i try to use properties-maven-plugin like :

<plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-alpha-1</version>
                <configuration>
                <files>
                    <file>conf.properties</file>
                </files>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>initialize</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>read-project-properties</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
        </plugins>
        </build>

<distributionManagement>
    <snapshotRepository>
        <id>snapshots</id>
        <url>${nexusurl}</url>
    </snapshotRepository>
</distributionManagement>
</project>    

and the file conf.properties contains :

 nexusurl=http://localhost:8081/nexus/content/repositories/snapshots

the problem is that when using mvn deploy, the property nexusurl is not resolved, and the error trace resulted is :

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy
(default- deploy) on project parent: Failed to deploy artifacts/metadata: No connector 
available to access repository snapshots (${nexusurl}) of type default using the 
available  factories WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory -> [Help 1]
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: Failed to execute
goal   org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin:2.7:deploy (default-deploy) on 
project  parent: Failed to deploy artifacts/metadata: No connector available to 
access repository snapshots (${nexusurl}) of type default using the available
factories WagonRepositoryConnectorFactory

I had tried to change the execution phase of the plugin (validate, install , deploy), changing the verion of the plugin to 1.0-alpha-2, but te problem persist.

I will be thankful of any aid.
Thanks,

Answer 1

The problem is that the pom.xml is read and inteporlated with properties much earlier than your plugin loads. You can use the plugin for values within your build — for example between plugins, but what you’re trying to do will not work like that.