Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
toolchains:help Display help information on maven-toolchains-plugin.
Call mvn toolchains:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
toolchains:toolchain Check that toolchains requirements are met by currently configured toolchains and store the selected toolchains in build context for later retrieval by other plugins.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 2.2.1
JDK 1.5
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

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-toolchains-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.1</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-toolchains-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"