Profile x will be the the only active profile when you call mvn … -P x. Reason from the maven documentation: Profiles can be explicitly specified using the -P CLI option. This option takes an argument that is a comma-delimited list of profile-ids to use. When this option is specified, no profiles other than those … Read more
Another option is mvn help:all-profiles, which also list inherited profiles. Displays a list of available profiles under the current project. Note: it will list all profiles for a project. If a profile comes up with a status inactive then there might be a need to set profile activation switches/property. More details in Maven’s help plugin … Read more
A very useful Maven command for checking these OS properties on your machine: mvn enforcer:display-info Example output on a SunOS / Sparc host: [INFO] Maven Version: 3.0.4 [INFO] JDK Version: 1.6.0_34 normalized as: 1.6.0-34 [INFO] OS Info: Arch: sparc Family: unix Name: sunos Version: 5.8 Example output on a Linux host: [INFO] Maven Version: 3.0.4 … Read more
If You have created maven profiles in your pom.xml, you should be able to see the profiles in right side of Intellij Idea If there will be multiple profile you can activate one by default <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> Or for running specific profile we can select mvn install -Pbuild-profile
Profiles defined in a parent POM are inherited in a child POM extending the parent, there is nothing to do. And just in case, the Maven Help Plugin has very useful goals allowing to deal with profiles: help:active-profiles : lists the profiles which are currently active for the build. help:all-profiles : lists the available profiles … Read more
Based on the documentation and discussion here, try separating profile names with a comma: mvn install -P Test1,Test2
By using the attribute activeByDefault you will be able to select a default profile in Maven when no other profile is selected with the -P parameter. <profiles> <profile> <id>da</id> </profile> <profile> <id>live</id> </profile> <profile> <id>dev</id> <activation> <activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault> </activation> </profile> </profiles> See Maven Introduction to Profiles documentation