Maven Plugin

About

Maven is the most commonly used dependency manager for Java development. It's purpose is to simplify the build process of complex (and simple) project in a world where existing code libraries are rampant. The entire build process is managed by a single XML file containing the entire set of dependencies used within the project's packages.

It can also be used to perform certain operations during the compilation, building or testing of a code base. By example, there is a javadoc plugin which is used to require javadoc documentation to be written for all methods.

Definitions

The following properties are the most common in maven config files (pom.xml).

groupId: This is the group ID for the plugin, and should match the common prefix to the packages used by the mojos

artifactId: This is the name of the plugin

version: This is the version of the plugin

packaging: This should be set to "maven-plugin"

dependencies: A dependency must be declared to the Maven Plugin Tools API to resolve "AbstractMojo" and related classes

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