Goals available for this plugin:
| Goal | Description |
|---|---|
| help:active-profiles | Displays a list of the profiles which are currently active for this build. |
| help:all-profiles | Displays a list of available profiles under the current project.
Note: it will list all profiles for a project. If a profile comes up with a status inactive then there might be a need to set profile activation switches/property. |
| help:describe | Displays a list of the attributes for a Maven Plugin and/or goals (aka Mojo - Maven plain Old Java Object). |
| help:effective-pom | Displays the effective POM as an XML for this build, with the active profiles factored in. |
| help:effective-settings | Displays the calculated settings as XML for this project, given any profile enhancement and the inheritance of the global settings into the user-level settings. |
| help:evaluate | Evaluates Maven expressions given by the user in an interactive mode. |
| help:expressions | Displays the supported Plugin expressions used by Maven. |
| help:help | Display help information on maven-help-plugin. Call mvn help:help -Ddetail=true
-Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details. |
| help:system | Displays a list of the platform details like system properties and environment variables. |
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. |
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-help-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</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-help-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
</plugin>
...
</plugins>
</build>
...
</project>
For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"