What is the value of project.build.finalName?

Question

The Maven documentation talks about a property called project.build.finalName, but I couldn't find a definition of the value it is set to based on other values in the pom.xml.

How is the value of project.build.finalName computed in absence of an overriding property definition in the pom.xml?

Answer 1

Google that... Look at the Maven POM reference: http://maven.apache.org/pom.html#BaseBuild_Element

finalName: This is the name of the bundled project when it is finally built (sans the file extension, for example: my-project-1.0.jar). It defaults to ${artifactId}-${version}. The term "finalName" is kind of a misnomer, however, as plugins that build the bundled project have every right to ignore/modify this name (but they usually do not). For example, if the maven-jar-plugin is configured to give a jar a classifier of test, then the actual jar defined above will be built as my-project-1.0-test.jar.