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

See also: org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.ArtifactRepositoryMetadata, org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.GroupRepositoryMetadata
plugin:descriptor No

Generate a plugin descriptor.

Note: Since 3.0, for Java 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. Relies at runtime on one output file from DescriptorGeneratorMojo.
plugin:report Yes Deprecated. use the maven-plugin-report-plugin instead

System Requirements

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

Maven 3.2.5
JDK 1.8

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>3.8.1</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>
      </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>3.8.1</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
  ...
</project>

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