How can I override maven property values set by properties-maven-plugin's read-project-properties goal?

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In one of our projects, we use the properties-maven-plugin's read-project-properties goal to read property values from a file which are then used for filtering resources. See <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions...es-maven-plugin-and-filter-in-a-maven-profile">this post</a> for a discussion on the general purpose of this procedure.

We would like to override some of the values found in the file using a suitable profile defined in the developer specific settings.xml (the same way we override properties set in the POM).

This, however, does not work for the properties set by the properties-maven-plugin.

How can we achieve our goal?

As a work around, we are currently registering an additional, developer specific file with the properties-maven-plugin to achieve this effect but it would be much more convenient to use the regular way (profiles).

In more general terms, the question is: How do properties set by properties-maven-plugin's read-project-properties goal tie into the property definition precedence hierarchy of maven, which is described in this <a href="https://davidmarquis.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/maven-custom-properties-precedence/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">very helpful blog post</a>.

I extracted the relevant elements of our POM into a toy project that demonstrates my issue. Here is the POM of the toy project:

<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">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>xxx</groupId>
  <artifactId>MavenTest</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <name>Maven Test</name>
  <description>A maven project to test filtering and the maven-properties-plugin</description>
  <build>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
        <filtering>true</filtering>
      </resource>
    </resources>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
        <artifactId>properties-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <!-- Read properties from a file -->
          <execution>
            <id>load-filter-properties</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>read-project-properties</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>initialize</phase>
            <configuration>
              <files>
                <file>filters/filterTest.properties</file>
              </files>
              <quiet>false</quiet>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
          <!-- The following execution is for debug purposes only -->
          <execution>
            <id>write-project-properties</id>
            <inherited>false</inherited>
            <goals>
              <goal>write-project-properties</goal>
            </goals>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <configuration>
              <outputFile>filters/project.properties</outputFile>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.12-beta-1</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>