All about Maven property reference
In Maven, it exposes some built-in property related to settings, underlayer Java, operating system…etc. Also, it can define custom properties on the pom. Over this article, let's discuss the built-in properties of maven and the importance of custom property definition.
In maven pom.xml, a property is accessed by using ${property_name}. You can define your custom properties in Maven. Also, the maven supports a large scale of built-in properties. Here over this article, we will discuss all these kind of properties supported by maven.
What are the types of properties in Maven?
Maven supports a great set of property references. In pom.xml it can get the os configured properties, Java properties. You can also define your own properties on the parent pom and can refer those properties from the child. Let's discuss each of them here
Environment properties
These are the properties defined in the os level environment variables. Such as path variable value, java_home configured on os level…etc. For accessing the Environmental properties, add the prefix env before the variable like follows.
${env.PATH}
${env.MAVEN_HOME}
${env.JAVA_HOME}
${env.MY_ENV_VARIABLE}
