title: Setting the object type of a Maven property
body: <p>How can set the object type of a property in a pom file?</p>
  
  <p>I'm working with DBUnit to do DB exports and I'm trying to pass in the table parameter</p>
  
  <pre><code>        &lt;configuration&gt;
            &lt;format&gt;xml&lt;/format&gt;
            &lt;dest&gt;target/dbunit/export.xml&lt;/dest&gt;
            &lt;tables&gt;ACTIVITY_TYPE&lt;/tables&gt;
          &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The tables attribute is supposed to have a type of 'Table[]' and running maven I get</p>
  
  <p>[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.codehaus.mojo:dbunit-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:
  export (default) on project CCSEWMS-db-export: Unable to parse configuration of
  mojo org.codehaus.mojo:dbunit-maven-plugin:1.0-beta-3:export for parameter tables: Cannot assign configuration entry 'tables' with value 'ACTIVITY_TYPE' of type
   java.lang.String to property of type org.dbunit.ant.Table[] -> [Help 1]</p>
  
  <p>So how can I convert my Strings into a Table[]?</p>