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The mavenSW "help:active-profiles" goal can be used to display the active profiles for a project. Here is an EclipseSW external tools configuration to perform the goal.

Here is the external tools configuration window:

To execute the goal, we can select the project and then the external tool configuration.

The console output is shown here.

Console output from 'mvn help:active-profiles'

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'help'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building mytest
[INFO]    task-segment: [help:active-profiles] (aggregator-style)
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [help:active-profiles]
[INFO] 
Active Profiles for Project 'com.maventest:mytest:jar:1.0-SNAPSHOT': 

The following profiles are active:

 - my.1.6.profile (source: settings.xml)
 - a.profile (source: settings.xml)



[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: < 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Sat Feb 09 23:55:34 PST 2008
[INFO] Final Memory: 2M/5M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

As you can see from the output, two profiles are currently active, "my.1.6.profile" and "a.profile".