How to set up an environment variable in mvn pom?

Question

How can i set up an environment variable (in other words internally accessible by System.getenv("APP_HOME") in a pom file?

APP_HOME=/path/home 

I realize i can set it up in .profile, but wonder if pom can do the same trick.

Per bmargulies's suggestion below, i tried the following, without luck

<build>     <finalName>KvpStore</finalName>     <plugins>         <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>             <version>2.3.2</version>             <configuration>                 <source>1.6</source>                 <target>1.6</target>                 <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>             </configuration>         </plugin>         <plugin>             <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>             <version>2.12.4</version>             <configuration>                 <includes>                     <include>**/*Test*.java</include>                 </includes>                 <environmentVariables>                     <APP_NAME>blah_blah</APP_NAME>  <------------------------                 </environmentVariables>             </configuration>         </plugin>     </plugins> </build> 

Answer 1

Some plugins, like surefire, let you set them. There's no way, in general, in the pom.

The doc for surefire is is here. Surefire will set environment variables for the duration of the run of the tests, not for anything else. And you have to make surefire fork.

In the configuration ...

<configuration>   <forkMode>always</forkMode>   <environmentVariables>      <var1>val1</var1>   </environmentVariables> </configuration>