Apache Maven Enforcer Plugin – Plugin Documentation

Plugin Documentation

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal	Description
enforcer:display-info	Deprecated. please use `mvn --version` This goal displays the current platform information.
enforcer:enforce	This goal executes the defined enforcer-rules once per module.
enforcer:help	Display help information on maven-enforcer-plugin. Call `mvn enforcer:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>` to display parameter details.

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
3.5.0	3.6.3	8
from 3.1.0 to 3.4.1	3.2.5	8
3.0.0	3.1.1	8
3.0.0-M3	2.2.1	7
from 3.0.0-M1 to 3.0.0-M2	2.2.1	6
from 1.4 to 1.4.1	2.2.1	5
from 1.2 to 1.3.1	-	5
from 1.0 to 1.1.1	2.0.6	5
from 1.0-alpha-4 to 1.0-beta-1	2.0.6	1.4
from 1.0-alpha-1 to 1.0-alpha-3	-	-

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-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.5.0</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-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

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