Configuring the Plugin

In this example we want to call the generated announcement file CHANGES.txt and have it put into the META-INF directory of the project's JAR file. To do this we configure the Changes Plugin like this:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>include-announcement-file</id>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>announcement-generate</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <announcementFile>CHANGES.txt</announcementFile>
              <announcementDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}/META-INF</announcementDirectory>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>