Re: properties-maven-plugin

> Hi,
>
> I've created a properties-maven-plugin which is described in a message
> on the dev mailing list:
>
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> http://tinyurl.com/y2e429
>
> I've written a plugin that serves as a good utility in handling
> properties.  Given the many questions on this mailing list about
> handling properties for different environments and I/O'ing them from
> files, I think this would help in alleviating this problem.
>
> It has three goals (for now):
>
> 1. read-project-properties: Given a set of property files in
> name=value format, it reads them and stores them as project
> properties.  This would be nice for those of us that store environment
> specific information in different property files.
>
> 2. write-project-properties: Writes project properties to a given
> file.  Helpful when some properties need to be available at runtime
> (e.g.: Spring's PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer)
>
> 3. write-active-profile-properties:  Writes the properties of any
> active profiles to a file.
>
> The above three are the use cases that I've encountered.  I'm sure
> there are many more.
>
> If there is any interest in such a plugin, do respond to this and I
> will make a site for it and start the process of submitting a plugin
> to org.codehaus.mojo.
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