Netbeans 6.8 Maven projects - How to activate multiple profiles?

[paulm]

Up until Netbeans 6.7, I was able activate multiple maven profiles simultaneously for a project by going to the profiles section of the project's context menu and checking off which profiles I wanted to activate simultaneously. This is useful for me because I can have one profile that deploys after packaging, another that dictates where to deploy to, yet another one configures the type of app server I'm building an ear for (glassfish or weblogic), and finally the last profile has some generic project configurations that may vary for different purposes.

Now in Netbeans 6.8 the profiles menu item has been replaced with 'set configuration' which instead of check boxes, has radio buttons and only lets you select one profile (?!). This new 'set configuration' submenu seems like a step backwards, and, with no good alternative, is absolutely a breaking point in NB 6.8 usability (to me).

How do I activate multiple profiles without having to edit every action in the project's properties (this approach is tedious and error prone)?

Did the NB developers have some better approach in mind which they thought selecting only one profile was good for? What was it? Surely they don't expect me to combine every permutation of all my profiles into dozens of massive profiles all lumped into my pom.xml?

[paulm]

Okay, I've solved my own problem (or rather I spoke too soon).

In the Set Configuration submenu there is the customize window. At first I thought this was just another window for activating a profile (a bit redundant it seemed), or creating a new profile via 'add' button. The add button actually lets you create grouping of profiles to activate. This in the end I think turns out nicer than the previous NB 6.7 approach of checking off profiles. It would still be nice if you could select multiple configuration/profiles though.

[mkleint]

paulm wrote:

[mark]

[Trevor Paterson]

profile1,profile2,profile3

works for me



mark-500 wrote:

[mark]

Thanks Trevor - yes on removing the spaces works a charm