Maven Plugin Tool for Annotations

The Maven Plugin Tool for Annotations is the impl of maven-plugin-tools-api to extract descriptors from plugins written in Java with Maven Plugin Tools Java 5 Annotations.

Supported Annotations

import org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecution;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.PluginDescriptor;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.ResolutionScope;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Execute;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.InstanciationStrategy;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject;
import org.apache.maven.settings.Settings;

/**
 * Mojo Description. @Mojo( name = "<goal-name>" ) is the minimal required annotation.
 * @since <since-text>
 * @deprecated <deprecated-text>
 */
@Mojo( name = "<goal-name>",
       aggregator = <false|true>, 
       configurator = "<role hint>",
       executionStrategy = "<once-per-session|always>",
       inheritByDefault = <true|false>,
       instantiationStrategy = InstanciationStrategy.<strategy>,
       defaultPhase = "<phase-name>",
       requiresDependencyResolution = ResolutionScope.<scope>,
       requiresDependencyCollection = ResolutionScope.<scope>, // (since Maven 3.0)
       requiresDirectInvocation = <false|true>,
       requiresOnline = <false|true>,
       requiresProject = <true|false>,
       requiresReports = <false|true>, // (unsupported since Maven 3.0)
       threadSafe = <false|true> ) // (since Maven 3.0)
@Execute( goal = "<goal-name>",
          phase = LifecyclePhase.<phase>
          lifecycle = "<lifecycle-id>" )
public class MyMojo
    extends AbstractMojo
{
    /**
     * @since <since-text>
     * @deprecated <deprecated-text>
     */
    @Parameter( alias = "myAlias",
                property = "a.property",
                defaultValue = "an expression with ${variables} eventually",
                readonly = <false|true>
                required = <false|true> )
    private String parameter;

    @Component( role = MyComponentExtension.class,
                hint = "..." )
    private MyComponent component;

    @Component
    private MavenSession session;

    @Component
    private MavenProject project;

    @Component
    private MojoExecution mojo;

    @Component
    private PluginDescriptor plugin;

    @Component
    private Settings settings;

    public void execute()
    {
        ...
    }
}