覆盖Maven中的系统属性

Question

I have a web application with a couple of profiles - for production and for local testing; build is executed with maven; logback is used for logging

so some of logs write to files - the problem is: in production we use tomcat and CATALINA_HOME is set on server, but locally we often use jetty, so tomcat may even not be configured

so in prod i want to write log in file this way: ${catalina.home}/logs/profiler.%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log

how do I set maven override this ${catalina.home} property

1. how do i set it from maven (do i need system properties or just maven properties)
2. may i make it conditional? (if it is not set on the local system then use the property defined in #1)

thanks a lot! tatiana.

Answer 1

You can define a maven property , say log.dir and set it to appropriate values in each profile .

Say,

    <profile>
        <id>dev</id>
        <properties>
            <log.dir>${catalina.home}/...</log.dirv>
        </properties>
    </profile>