In maven - how to rename the output .war file based on the name of the profile in use

Question

I have three profiles in my pom.xml for our application...

1. dev (for use on a developer's)
2. qa (for use on our internal qa server)
3. prod (production).

When we run our maven build all three profiles ouput a war file with the same name. I would like to output $profilename-somearbitraryname.war

Any ideas?

Solution 1

You've answered yourself correctly:

<profiles>
    <profile>
        <id>dev</id>
        <properties>
            <rp.build.warname>dev</rp.build.warname>
        </properties>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>qa</id>
        <properties>
            <rp.build.warname>qa</rp.build.warname>
        </properties>
    </profile>
    <profile>
        <id>prod</id>
        <properties>
            <rp.build.warname>prod</rp.build.warname>
        </properties>
    </profile>
</profiles>

but there is a simpler way to redefine WAR name:

<build>
    <finalName>${rp.build.warname}-somearbitraryname</finalName>
    <!-- ... -->
</build>

No maven-war-plugin is needed.

Solution 2

The answer was simple...

Define a property in each profile like this...

<profile>
    <id>qa</id>
    <properties>
        <rp.build.warname>ourapp-qa</rp.build.warname>
    </properties>
</profile>

Then add this to your plugins...

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <packagingExcludes>WEB-INF/web.xml</packagingExcludes>
        <warName>${rp.build.warname}</warName>
    </configuration>
</plugin>