Maven Filter Resources and Adding a Project Version

Question

This is a simple filter approach for writing a project version to a file.

<build>
 <resources>
  <resource>
    <directory>src/main/webapp</directory>
    <includes>
      <include>**/*.version</include>
    </includes>
    <filtering>true</filtering>
  </resource>
 </resources>
</build>

This is the project structure (excluding unmanaged parts)

├───src
│   └───main
│       ├───java
│       │   └─── [...]
│       └───webapp
│           ├───META-INF
│           └───WEB-INF
│               ├───cfg
│               └───portal.version
└─── pom.xml

Content portal.version

${project.version}

This should be replaced with an artifact version pom.xml, but unfortunately nothing happens. What's wrong? Thank you in advance

Answer 1

When you specify a resource element, the content filtered as a result is copied to the target / classes folder. To filter web application resources, you can configure the maven-war-plugin.

Although to get the version in most cases it is better to read the standard Maven properties file in your application, for example. META-INF\maven\<groupId>\<artifactId>\pom.properties

Answer 2

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