I have a Maven project with multiple overlapping profiles. I want to display the active profiles at the beginning of every build. So I put the following into the pom.xml <build> section:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>display-active-profiles-at-start-of-build</id>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>active-profiles</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

The problem is that the plugin executes multiple times during the build:

  1. At the beginning of the build (during the validate phase).
  2. When jar:jar executes.
  3. After source:jar / during pre-integration-test (?), when Jetty is being started.

Similar results when specifying <phase>initialize</phase>. Is there a way to get this to only run at the beginning of the build?

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