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?

Answer 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.