Build profiles are an important concept for unifying configuration differences between different environments. They also should capture information across all aspects of the POM.

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Design

General Objectives

• All profile information should be kept together to create a single view of it, rather than dispersing it throughout the POM
• Based on the design decisions below, the profile is a subset of a POM that is applied onto the current POM as a form of inheritence.
• Each profile has a globally unique identifier.

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