maven build - version information

Question

We specify versionId in POM and correspondingly maven produces foo-version.jar. Example: foo-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar.

Is it possible to do do the following with maven?

• Not specify versionId in POM but specify build version from command line. This will help not "hardcode" the version in POM and changing it for each release, but specify it through a super build script.

Answer 1

Set project version in pom as a place holder

<groupId>test</groupId>
<artifactId>x</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>

now you can pass version from command line

mvn -Dproject.version=1.1.1 package