Where is the list of predefined Maven properties

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I know there is a list of all predefined Maven properties  you know like project build sourceEncoding  or project build sourceDirectory   I once saw the list but I just can t find it again

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Looking at the  effective POM  will probably help too   For instance  if you wanted to know what the path is for   project build sourceDirectory   you would find the related XML in the effective POM  such as       lt project gt       lt build gt       lt sourceDirectory gt  my path lt  sourceDirectory gt   Also helpful - you can do a real time evaluation of properties via the command line execution of mvn help evaluate while in the same dir as the POM

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This link shows how to list all the active properties  http   skillshared blogspot co uk 2012 11 how-to-list-down-all-maven-available html  In summary  add the following plugin definition to your POM  then run mvn install    lt plugin gt       lt artifactId gt maven-antrun-plugin lt  artifactId gt       lt version gt 1 7 lt  version gt       lt executions gt           lt execution gt               lt phase gt install lt  phase gt               lt configuration gt                   lt target gt                       lt echoproperties   gt                   lt  target gt               lt  configuration gt               lt goals gt                   lt goal gt run lt  goal gt               lt  goals gt           lt  execution gt       lt  executions gt   lt  plugin gt

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I think the best place to look is the Super POM   As an example  at the time of writing  the linked reference shows some of the properties between lines 32 - 48   The interpretation of this is to follow the XPath as a   delimited property   So  for example     project build testOutputDirectory       project build directory  test-classes  And     project build directory       project basedir  target      Thus combining them  we find     project build testOutputDirectory       project basedir  target test-classes   To reference the resources directory s   see this stackoverflow question      lt project gt       lt modelVersion gt 4 0 0 lt  modelVersion gt                         lt build gt           lt directory gt   project basedir  target lt  directory gt           lt outputDirectory gt   project build directory  classes lt  outputDirectory gt           lt finalName gt   project artifactId -  project version  lt  finalName gt           lt testOutputDirectory gt   project build directory  test-classes lt  testOutputDirectory gt           lt sourceDirectory gt   project basedir  src main java lt  sourceDirectory gt           lt scriptSourceDirectory gt src main scripts lt  scriptSourceDirectory gt           lt testSourceDirectory gt   project basedir  src test java lt  testSourceDirectory gt           lt resources gt               lt resource gt                   lt directory gt   project basedir  src main resources lt  directory gt               lt  resource gt           lt  resources gt           lt testResources gt               lt testResource gt                   lt directory gt   project basedir  src test resources lt  directory gt               lt  testResource gt           lt  testResources gt                                     lt  build gt                     lt  project gt

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Take a look at section 9 2   Maven Properties of the free online book Maven  The Complete Reference

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I got tired of seeing this page with its by-now stale references to defunct Codehaus pages so I asked on the Maven Users mailing list and got some more up-to-date answers   I would say that the best  and most authoritative  answer contained in my link above is the one contributed by Herv   BOUTEMY      here is the core reference    http   maven apache org ref 3-LATEST maven-model-builder       it does not explain everyting that can be found in POM or in settings    since  there are so much info available but it points to POM and   settings descriptors and explains everything that is  not POM or   settings

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Do you mean this one   https   web archive org web 20150520200505 https   docs codehaus org display MAVENUSER MavenPropertiesGuide  I also moved its content to a GitHub repo   https   github com cko predefined maven properties blob master README md

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