Reading External Properties Files in Maven

While resource filtering can be employed to read properties files in Maven, it may not fulfill the requirement of defining a specific property file in the pom.xml. To address this, consider leveraging the Properties Maven Plugin.

The Properties Maven Plugin allows you to read external properties files in Maven. It provides a way to specify a properties file in the pom.xml using the element:

This configuration will read the x.properties file and make its properties available to the build. You can then reference these properties in your pom.xml using the following syntax:

${properties.version}