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How to list all activated profiles in mvn in a multimodule project

mvn help:active-profiles only list the profiles activate within the project + system settings you call it in.

It does not list the profiles that have been enabled/activated from i.e. the parent pom.

Any any way to actually see the full list of activated profiles by other means than trial-and-error to look at what properties are enabled or not ?

Solution

  • I double-checked this and indeed, inherited profiles aren't listed when mvn help:active-profiles is being called. This is with maven-help-plugin version 2.1.1.

    There is even a bug-report about this: MPH-79.

    As a workaround, you can use older version:

    mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.0.2:active-profiles ...