Run a profile that is within a maven dependency

Question

Consider a project, DbProject, which creates a database by running a specific profile within a maven command.

If I add DbProject as a dependency to another project, ApplicationProject, can I call DbProject's profile directly from a maven command on the ApplicationProject?

Answer 1

The short answer is no you can't.

The only way to access the profile from DbPorject from within ApplicationProject is if ApplicationProject's pom has DbProject's pom as its parent pom. ApplicationProject would then inherit all profiles defined within DbProject.