Does maven take the default repositories if no repositories are mentioned for a specific profile?

I would be developing a pom.xml for my project, the issue is we will have almost 15 different profiles depending on the modules we want to build for that s开发者_JAVA百科pecific profile.(Its a multi-war project and lot of wars do not need a few core dependencies).So I was wondering , how does maven react when no repositories are mentioned in a profile element in pom.xml.

Would it take the repositores from the default build element or not??

Thanks

Neeraj

There are several places where a repository can be defined:

• In the root pom.xml, where the Maven Central repository is defined: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/;
• In your settings.xml file;
• In your pom.xml;
• In a <profile> inside your pom.xml.

Thus, if no repository is defined in your default pom.xml or in an active <profile>, Maven will use the ones defined in your settings.xml file, or if no one is defined there, it will use the Maven Central repository.

Also, note that there is a mvn help:effective-pom command that will display the complete pom.xml file that is processed. So in your case, you can run this command and enable / disable some profiles, to see the impact in the repositories list.