title: Controlling Maven final name of jar artifact
body: <p>I'm trying to define a property in our super pom which will be used by all child projects as the destination of the generated artifact.</p>
  
  <p>For this I was thinking about using <code>project/build/finalName</code> yet this does not seem work, even for simple poms:</p>
  
  <p><strong><em>Command</em></strong></p>
  
  <pre><code> mvn archetype:create \ 
     -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \
     -DgroupId=com.mycompany.app \
     -DartifactId=my-app
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong><em>POM</em></strong></p>
  
  
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
  
    &lt;groupId&gt;com.mycompany.app&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;my-app&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.0-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  
    &lt;name&gt;my-app&lt;/name&gt;
    &lt;url&gt;http://maven.apache.org&lt;/url&gt;
  
    &lt;properties&gt;
      &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;
  
    &lt;build&gt;
          &lt;finalName&gt;${project.name}-testing&lt;/finalName&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;
    &lt;dependencies&gt;
      &lt;dependency&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;junit&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;junit&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;3.8.1&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
      &lt;/dependency&gt;
    &lt;/dependencies&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And when I executed : </p>
  
  <pre class="lang-xml prettyprint-override"><code>$ mvn install
  
  [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Building my-app
  [INFO]    task-segment: [install]
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}]
  [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
  [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/src/main/resources
  [INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}]
  [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
  [INFO] [resources:testResources {execution: default-testResources}]
  [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources.
  [INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/src/test/resources
  [INFO] [compiler:testCompile {execution: default-testCompile}]
  [INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
  [INFO] [surefire:test {execution: default-test}]
  [INFO] Surefire report directory: /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/target/surefire-reports
  
  -------------------------------------------------------
   T E S T S
  -------------------------------------------------------
  Running com.mycompany.app.AppTest
  Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.024 sec
  
  Results :
  
  Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
  
  [INFO] [jar:jar {execution: default-jar}]
  [INFO] [install:install {execution: default-install}]
  [INFO] Installing /tmp/mvn_test/my-app/target/my-app-testing.jar to /home/maxim/.m2/repository/com/mycompany/app/my-app/1.0-SNAPSHOT/my-app-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
  [INFO] Finished at: Sun Nov 21 18:37:02 IST 2010
  [INFO] Final Memory: 17M/162M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would expect the string "testing" would appear somewhere in the generated artifact name.</p>
  
  <p>Am I misunderstanding the purpose of "finalName" ?</p>