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bossman
bossman

Reputation: 421

Maven make same projects with different dependencies

I have created one maven project(Desktop application). Now I would like to make the same project, but I want to change some of the dependency versions. For example I have lib-1.0.jar and lib-2.0.jar. Now I would like to debug one of my projects with lib-1.0.jar and another project with lib-2.0.jar.
What is the best approach to achieve this? I dont want to edit my pom by hand everytime I debug the project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 43

Answers (1)

Boris the Spider
Boris the Spider

Reputation: 61148

Set a property for the version number, something like:

<properties>
    <lib.version>1.0</lib.version>
</properties>

And use that in the dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>lib.group</groupId>
    <artifactId>lib</artifactId>
    <version>${lib.version}</version>
</dependency>

Now you can simply override this in a profile:

<profile>
    <id>bleeding-edge</id>
    <properties>
        <lib.version>2.0</lib.version>
    </properties>
</profile>

And run with the profile to use the different version:

mvn -P bleeding-edge clean install

Note that this will probably confuse your IDE no end - with some IDE's you can set the profiles used.

Upvotes: 4

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