[java] Access maven properties defined in the pom

How do I access maven properties defined in the pom in a normal maven project, and in a maven plugin project?

Set up a System variable from Maven and in java use following call

System.getProperty("Key");

Maven already has a solution to do what you want:

Get MavenProject from just the POM.xml - pom parser?

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Model model = null;
FileReader reader = null;
MavenXpp3Reader mavenreader = new MavenXpp3Reader();

try {
     reader = new FileReader(pomfile); // <-- pomfile is your pom.xml
     model = mavenreader.read(reader);
     model.setPomFile(pomfile);
}catch(Exception ex){
     // do something better here
     ex.printStackTrace()
}

MavenProject project = new MavenProject(model);
project.getProperties() // <-- thats what you need

This can be done with standard java properties in combination with the maven-resource-plugin with enabled filtering on properties.

For more info see http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html

This will work for standard maven project as for plugin projects

Use the properties-maven-plugin to write specific pom properties to a file at compile time, and then read that file at run time.

In your pom.xml:

<properties>
     <name>${project.name}</name>
     <version>${project.version}</version>
     <foo>bar</foo>
</properties>

<build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <phase>generate-resources</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>write-project-properties</goal>
                    </goals>
                    <configuration>
                        <outputFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/my.properties</outputFile>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

And then in .java:

java.io.InputStream is = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("my.properties");
java.util.Properties p = new Properties();
p.load(is);
String name = p.getProperty("name");
String version = p.getProperty("version");
String foo = p.getProperty("foo");

You can parse the pom file with JDOM (http://www.jdom.org/).