We are pleased to announce the Maven Abbot Plugin 1.1 release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/abbot/

Run Abbot tests 

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Changes in this version include:

  New Features:

o Added new maven.abbot.extrajarsproperty that can be used to specify extra 
  jars to be added to the executing classpath. For example, this is useful to 
  add custom Abbot tester classes. 

  Changes:

o Upgraded to Abbot 0.13.0 and JDOM 1.0 beta 10.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-abbot-plugin
  -Dversion=1.1

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-abbot-plugin-1.1.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Abbot Plugin development team