Plugin Documentation
This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.
Goals
Goals available for this plugin:
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| plugin:addPluginArtifactMetadata | Inject any plugin-specific artifact metadata to the project's artifact, for subsequent installation and deployment. It is used:
See also: org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.ArtifactRepositoryMetadata, org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.GroupRepositoryMetadata |
| plugin:descriptor | Generate a plugin descriptor. Note: Since 3.0, for Java plugin annotations support, default phase defined by this goal is after the "compilation" of any scripts. This doesn't override the default binding coded at generate-resources phase in Maven core. |
| plugin:help | Display help information on maven-plugin-plugin.
Call mvn plugin:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details. |
| plugin:helpmojo | Generates a HelpMojo class. Relies at runtime on one output file from DescriptorGeneratorMojo. |
System Requirements
The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:
| Maven | 3.6.3 |
| JDK | 1.8 |
System Requirements History
The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:
| Plugin Version | Maven | JDK |
|---|---|---|
| 4.0.0-beta-1 | 3.6.3 | - |
| from 3.13.0 to 3.15.0 | 3.6.3 | 8 |
| from 3.7.0 to 3.12.0 | 3.2.5 | 8 |
| 3.6.4 | 3.2.5 | 7 |
| from 3.6.0 to 3.6.2 | - | 7 |
| from 3.5 to 3.5.2 | 2.2.1 | 6 |
| 3.4 | 2.2.1 | 5 |
| from 2.8 to 3.3 | 2.0.6 | 5 |
| from 2.4 to 2.7 | 2.0.6 | 1.4 |
| 2.3 | 2.0.5 | - |
| 2.2 | 2.0.4 | - |
| from 2.0-beta-1 to 2.1 | - | - |
Usage
You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:
<project>
...
<build>
<!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.15.0</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
<!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"