The Properties Maven Plugin is here to make life a little easier when dealing with properties. It provides goals to read and write properties from files.
'org.codehaus.mojo:properties-maven-plugin:1.0-alpha-2'
<dependency>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.0-alpha-2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency org="org.codehaus.mojo" name="properties-maven-plugin" rev="1.0-alpha-2"/>
"org.codehaus.mojo", "properties-maven-plugin", "1.0-alpha-2"