Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Report? Description
plugin:addPluginArtifactMetadata No Inject any plugin-specific artifact metadata to the project's artifact, for subsequent installation and deployment. It is used:
  1. to add the latest metadata (which is plugin-specific) for shipping alongside the plugin's artifact
  2. to define plugin mapping in the group
plugin:descriptor No Generate a plugin descriptor.
Note: Since 3.0, for Java 5 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 No Display help information on maven-plugin-plugin.
Call mvn plugin:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
plugin:helpmojo No Generates a HelpMojo class.
plugin:report Yes Generates the Plugin's documentation report: plugin-info.html plugin overview page, and one goal-mojo.html per goal.
plugin:updateRegistry No Deprecated. plugin registry has been removed from Maven 3, this goal will be removed in next release

System Requirements

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

Maven 2.2.1
JDK Default target for maven-compiler-plugin version 3.7.0
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-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.5.2</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>
        <version>3.5.2</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
  <!-- To use the report goals in your POM or parent POM -->
  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.5.2</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
  ...
</project>

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