java - Maven - Can I reference profile id in profile definition?

Question

I've set profiles in a pom.xml, like shown as follows:

<profile>
<id><em>profileId1</em></id>
    <build>
        <filters>
            <filter>src/main/filters/<em>profileId1</em>.properties</filter>
        </filters>
// rest of the profile 
</profile>
<profile>
<id><em>profileId2</em></id>
    <build>
        <filters>
            <filter>src/main/filters/<em>profileId2</em>.properties</filter>
        </filters>
// rest of the profile
</profile>

Question:

Is there any way to extract this piece from all the profiles, so that there is no need to repeat it for every profile (and possibly misspell it)?

Answer 1

With maven 2.2.1 and later, I was able to get the ID of the first active profile using:

${project.activeProfiles[0].id}

Of course this fails if there is not a least one active profile.

Using the

${project.profiles[0].id}

as suggested by Pascal did not work for me.

Hint: While investigating this, I really started to love mvn help:evaluate.