Common SDK properties

Useful properties that can be fully controlled directly in the POM are:

<project>
    ...
    <!-- 
       | SDK properties have sensible defaults in the SDK parent,
       | but you can override the properties below to use another version. 
       | For more available properties see the alfresco-sdk-parent POM. 
       -->
    <properties>
        <alfresco.groupId>org.alfresco</alfresco.groupId>
        <alfresco.version>4.2.b</alfresco.version>
        <!-- Defines root logger log level for testing and embedded run -->
        <app.log.root.level>WARN</app.log.root.level>
        <!-- Logging dir. Note the trailing slash is required -->
        <app.log.dir>/Users/gabrielecolumbro/Documents/Projects/maven-alfresco-sdk/workspace/maven-alfresco-archetypes/target/checkout/poms/alfresco-sdk-parent/target/</app.log.root.level>
        <!-- The alf_data folder -->
        <alfresco.data.location>alf_data_dev</alfresco.data.location>
        <!-- This controls which properties will be picked in src/test/properties for embedded run -->
        <env>local</env>
    </properties>
    ...
</project>

Full SDK properties reference

The full reference of properties defined in the SDK can be obtained by looking at the properties section of the current version of the alfresco-sdk-parent in use. Check the current POM version for this.

While in certain cases it might be useful to override defaults, make sure you know what you're doing, as you might be breaking SDK conventions and therefore your build>

Example - Configuring custom DB

In order to configure a given JDBC database connection, you need to define some POM properties.

<properties>
  ...
  <alfresco.db.name>alfresco</alfresco.db.name>
  <alfresco.db.username>alfresco</alfresco.db.username>
  <alfresco.db.password>alfresco</alfresco.db.password>
  <alfresco.db.params></alfresco.db.params>
  <alfresco.db.url>jdbc:mysql://${db.host}:${db.port}/${db.name}</alfresco.db.url>
  <alfresco.db.datasource.class>org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver</alfresco.db.datasource.class>
</properties>