Templating Maven Plugin

The templating maven plugin handles copying files from a source to a given output directory, while filtering them. This plugin is useful to filter Java Source Code if you need for example to have things in that code replaced with some properties values.

Goals Overview

templating:filter-sources lets you filter your sources in one go.
templating:filter-test-sources lets you filter your test sources in one go.

Usage

General instructions on how to use the Templating Plugin can be found on the usage page. Some more specific use cases are described in the examples given below.

In case you still have questions regarding the plugin's usage, please have a look at the FAQ and feel free to contact the user mailing list. The posts to the mailing list are archived and could already contain the answer to your question as part of an older thread. Hence, it is also worth browsing/searching the mail archive.

If you feel like the plugin is missing a feature or has a defect, you can fill a feature request or bug report in our issue tracker. When creating a new issue, please provide a comprehensive description of your concern. Especially for fixing bugs it is crucial that the developers can reproduce your problem. For this reason, entire debug logs, POMs or most preferably little demo projects attached to the issue are very much appreciated. Of course, patches are welcome, too. Contributors can check out the project from our source repository and will find supplementary information in the guide to helping with Maven.

Examples

The following examples show how to use the Templating Plugin in more advanced usecases:

Technical details

Currently, it uses the Maven Filtering shared component for filtering resources.