Selecting Maven Profiles in Intellij 14

Question

I'm using intellij 14 and have the maven projects window open.

Why are there 2 different kinds of checkboxes? If you select the checkbox once, it will leave a white check. If you select it again, it will change the checkbox to gray. Whats the difference?

I also want to know how to tell a specific module (not the entire project) to use a particular maven profile that is only available to that module.

I have been unable to find this information on intellij's site. Thanks!

Answer 1

There are three possible states for a profile:

1. Disabled:

   

2. Active:

   

3. Active by Default:

   

The last one is activated by setting something like this in your pom.xml

<profile>
    <id>dev</id>
    <activation>
        <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
    </activation>
</profile>