i think this has already been fixed, someone already reported this
on the codehaus jira.
get the SNAPSHOT of maven-resources-plugin to fix this.
cheers,
pete
Sebastien Arbogast wrote:
> I'm just going through "Better Builds With Maven" book and once again, I
> can't help being amazed by the quality of it !
> Nevertheless, there are a few small errata here and there and for I'm
> tagging them as I'm reading so that I can provide feedback when I've them
> all. But here I'm stuck on some more important issue: in page 49, just
> before section 2.6.3, it's said that
>
> Filtering resources can also retrieve values from system properties;
> either
> the system properties built into Java (like java.version or
> user.home), or
> properties defined on the command line using the standard Java -D
> parameter.
> To continue the example, change the application.properties file to
> look like
> the following:
> # application.properties
> java.version=${java.version}
> command.line.prop=${command.line.prop}
> Now, when you execute the following command (note the definition of the
> command.line.prop property on the command line), the
> application.propertiesfile will contain the values from the system
> properties.
> mvn process-resources "-Dcommand.line.prop=hello again"
>
> Unfortunately, here is what I get in my generated
> application.propertiesfile:
> # application.properties
> java.version=1.0-SNAPSHOT
> command.line.prop=${command.line.prop}
>
> So the problem is that:
> - system property java.version is actually replaced by my project's
> version
> - command.line.prop is not taken into account on the command line.
>
> I tried a different syntax, putting the double quotes around "hello
> again"
> only, but it didn't work either.
> Has anyone got an idea of what I may have done wrong ?
>
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> Sébastien Arbogast
>
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