title: pom.xml is not able to read pom.properties file in maven
body: <p>I want to move properties like version and other properties to pom.properties file.
  I have already tried with <strong>properties-maven-plugin</strong> but still not getting any success.Please let me know how can i achieve this.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;build&gt;
  &lt;plugins&gt;
                  &lt;!-- Maven clean plugin --&gt;
                  &lt;plugin&gt;
                      &lt;groupId&gt;org.codehaus.mojo&lt;/groupId&gt;
                      &lt;artifactId&gt;properties-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                      &lt;version&gt;1.0-alpha-2&lt;/version&gt;
                      &lt;executions&gt;
                          &lt;execution&gt;
                              &lt;phase&gt;initialize&lt;/phase&gt;
                              &lt;goals&gt;
                                  &lt;goal&gt;read-project-properties&lt;/goal&gt;
                              &lt;/goals&gt;
                              &lt;configuration&gt;
                                  &lt;files&gt;
                                      &lt;file&gt;pom.properties&lt;/file&gt;
                                  &lt;/files&gt;
                              &lt;/configuration&gt;
                          &lt;/execution&gt;
                      &lt;/executions&gt;
                  &lt;/plugin&gt;....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my pom.properties file data..</p>
  
  <pre><code>appserver.home=D:\apache-tomcat-7.0.64
  central=http://192.168.0.110:9999/repository/internal/
  snapshot=http://192.168.0.110:9999/repository/stablesnapshots/
  spring.version=4.0.5.RELEASE
  hibernate.version=4.3.5.Final
  log4j.version=1.2.17
  jdk.version=1.7
  context.path=Evoke
  cxf.rt.frontend.jaxrs.version=3.0.0
  cxf.bundle.version=2.7.10
  cxf.bundle.minimal.version=2.7.10
  javax.ws.rs.api.version=2.0-m10
  commons.httpclient.version=3.1
  jackson.version=2.0.1
  jersey.multipart.version=1.18
  spring.security.version=3.2.7.RELEASE
  drools.version=6.2.0.Final
  itext.version=4.2.0
  quartz.version=2.2.1            
  </code></pre>