Build war with selected classes, depending on a profile

Question

I am building a Spring application with the use of maven.

In my application, I have two implementations (java classes) of one interface and want to use one of them, depending on the profile that I define during app building. Each of these implementations is in its separate app maven module. When building an application, I want to include in a war file only this one selected implementation.

When it comes to using the selected class, I have an idea to refer to some variable (defined in the profile in the <properties> section) in the application so as to get to know the choice and thus - use selected implementation.

When it comes to including in war only the selected class, I have no idea how should I do it. I am a beginner, have read this introduction to profiles but still don't know how to make it.

Answer 1

Use maven war plugin - include and exclude feature with regular expression. Refer below links:

1. http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-war-plugin/examples/including-excluding-files-from-war.html

2. http://mojo.codehaus.org/license-maven-plugin/examples/update-file-header-config.html