We recommend the practice of configuring different environments in build profiles as part of the Maven POM file.

Per convention we use all-uppercase identifiers for profiles that contain environments. The Apptools Maven Plugin is able to recognize environment profiles with this convention.

This is a short tutorial on how environment configurations can be stored with build profiles.

The following shows a configuration where the different target environments are configured with the POM file. This makes the different environments immediately accessible to users of the project.

Unfortunately this configuration lacks flexibility in case you administrate more than one project. In this case you may want to check the alternative configuration we show at the end of this document.