An example of liferay profile

settings.xml

<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
          xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
    <profiles>
        <profile>
            <id>liferay</id>
            <properties>
                <liferayinstall>/Users/mattitahvonenitmill/Applications/liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga4</liferayinstall>
                <plugin.type>portlet</plugin.type>
                <liferay.version>6.2.1</liferay.version>
                <liferay.maven.plugin.version>6.2.1</liferay.maven.plugin.version>
                <liferay.auto.deploy.dir>${liferayinstall}/deploy</liferay.auto.deploy.dir>
                <liferay.app.server.deploy.dir>${liferayinstall}/tomcat-7.0.42/webapps</liferay.app.server.deploy.dir>
                <liferay.app.server.lib.global.dir>${liferayinstall}/tomcat-7.0.42/lib/ext</liferay.app.server.lib.global.dir>
                <liferay.app.server.portal.dir>${liferayinstall}/tomcat-7.0.42/webapps/ROOT</liferay.app.server.portal.dir>
            </properties>      
        </profile>
    </profiles>
    <activeProfiles>
        <activeProfile>liferay</activeProfile>
    </activeProfiles>
</settings>