Build profiles

- [Instructor] It is also helpful to understand…what is meant by a Maven build profile.…Profiles allow for the ability to customize…a particular build for a particular environment.…Profiles enable portability between…different build environments.…When working at a previous job, we had a whole team…of programmers, but we also had a team of testers…and finally, of course, we had our clients.…So there were separate environments that mirrored each other…for developing, testing, and finally production…or deployment.…

This is an example where it might be helpful…to have separate build profiles.…You definitely don't want any extraneous reports…for debugging in your production environment.…A profile in Maven is an alternative set…of configuration values which set or override…default values.…It might also be used in a situation where…you need a different profile or a different build…based on the operating system.…Let me show you an example of a profile.…In this example, we define our XML file…with the tag profiles and then profile.…