Using a smart build number (Maven2 pom.xml)

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  
  <version>${smartBuildNumber}</version>
  
     ....
  <build>
    <plugins>     
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>buildnumber-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-beta-5-git</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>create</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
            <doCheck>false</doCheck>
            <doUpdate>false</doUpdate>
            <getRevisionOnlyOnce>true</getRevisionOnlyOnce>
            <revisionOnScmFailure>UNKOWN</revisionOnScmFailure>
            <!-- for SVN -->
            <useLastCommittedRevision>true</useLastCommittedRevision>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy.maven</groupId>
        <artifactId>gmaven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>execute</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <source>
                    println "smart build number: ${buildNumber}, ${scmBranch}"
                    def scmBranchSave = project.properties.getProperty('scmBranch').replaceAll('/','')
                    project.properties.setProperty('smartBuildNumber', "$scmBranchSave-${buildNumber}")
                    //println "properties: ${project.properties}"
                </source>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
     </plugins>
  </build>

</project>

One drawback:

• the maven install and deploy steps are using a path containing "${smartBuildNumber}", that is, they are using the value without any property replacement