Maven Plugin API

The API for plugins - composed of goals implemented by Mojos - development:

goal code extends AbstractMojo base class that implements Mojo interface,
Log interface provides easy logging for the goal.

A plugin is described in a META-INF/maven/plugin.xml plugin descriptor, generally generated from plugin sources using maven-plugin-plugin.

See Also

Mojo API Specification
Plugin Tools that provide maven-plugin-plugin to generate the META-INF/maven/plugin.xml plugin descriptor
Plugin Testing frameworks