Excluding dependencies from maven build depending on client/user

Question

Java

There is a project going from several modules using maven. Modules are implementations of certain functionality.

How to exclude certain modules from dependencies when building for different clients (users)?

Answer 1

profiles?

Answer 2

You can add everything to the profile, including dependencies:
pom.xml:
<profiles> <profile> <id>profile1</id> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>xxx</groupId> <artifactId>yyy</artifactId> </dependency>
And so on. You make one profile default, for convenience. When building -Pprofile1 and that's it.
maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html

Answer 3

As already mentioned, you can set specific dependencies in profiles. Profiles can be set directly for the project in the pom, through settings.xml (globally or for a specific user), and in the profiles.xml profile descriptor.
There is a section in settings.xml

<activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>profile-name</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>

where you can pass, for example, the variable ${user.name}

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