After so many years (since 2004, indeed when the first version of Maven 2 was still in development), I am still learning new stuff every day. For example, so far I was always specifying properties in my POM file. But you can use external property files! There is a Maven Properties Plugin over at Mojo with a goal "properties:read-project-properties".
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