Controlling maven final name of jar artifact

Question

I'm trying to define a property in our super pom which will be used by all child projects as the destination of the generated artifact.

For this I was thinking about using project/build/finalName yet this does not seem work, even for simple poms:

Command

 mvn archetype:create \ 
   -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
   -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \
   -DartifactId=my-app

POM

<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/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>com.mycompany.app</groupId>
  <artifactId>my-app</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <packaging>jar</packaging>

  <name>my-app</name>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <build>
        <finalName>${project.name}-testing</finalName>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>3.8.1</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

And when I executed :

$ mvn install

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building my-app
[INFO]    task-segment: [install]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/src/main/resources
[INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
[INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/src/test/resources
[INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/target/surefire-reports

-------------------------------------------------------
 T E S T S
-------------------------------------------------------
Running com.mycompany.app.AppTest
Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.024 sec

Results :

Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0

[INFO] [jar:jar {execution: default-jar}]
[INFO] [install:install {execution: default-install}]
[INFO] Installing /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/target/my-app-testing.jar to /home/maxim/.m2/repository/com/mycompany/app/my-app/1.0-SNAPSHOT/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Sun Nov 21 18:37:02 IST 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/162M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

I would expect the string "testing" would appear somewhere in the generated artifact name.

Am I misunderstanding the purpose of "finalName" ?

Answer 1

You set the finalName property in the plugin configuration section:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
    <configuration>
        <finalName>myJar</finalName>                   
    </configuration>
</plugin>       

As indicated in the official documentation.

Update:

For Maven >= 3

Based on Matthew's comment you can now do it like this:

 <packaging>jar</packaging>
 <build>
   <finalName>WhatEverYouLikey</finalName>
 </build>

See bug report/documentation.