Maven: Set the settings.xml location in the pom.xm

Question

Is it possible to set the location of the settings.xml file inside the pom.xml file.

I know you can do it from the command line typing mvn -s location/of/settings.xml, but I wanted to know if I can set that within the pom.xml so I don't have to keep typing through command line.

Answer 1

Something that may help you get what you want are profiles:

A profile in Maven is an alternative set of configuration values which set or override default values. Using a profile, you can customize a build for different environments. Profiles are configured in the pom.xml and are given an identifier. Then you can run Maven with a command-line flag that tells Maven to execute goals in a specific profile. The following pom.xml uses a production profile to override the default settings of the Compiler plugin.

Source: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#Profiles

Answer 2

No, but you can set what you need from the settings.xml file into the pom.xml and it will override what's in settings.xml

Answer 3

No. And that's probably a horrible idea, from a security standpoint. It'd allow the creator of a pom to bypass all your settings.xml settings. If you do the mvn -s location/of/settings.xml you will at least know it happened. But if you just randomly build a project, who knows how malicious that project's creator was.