Reputation: 81667

Developing Maven 3.0 Plugin

I have developed few Maven plugins for Maven 2, but I am wondering what are the main changes when I want to develop a plugin (or migrate the existing ones) for Maven 3.0.

The documentation on the Maven site in not up-to-date (what a surprise!) and all related pages still deal with Maven 2.0, like this one:

This guide is intended to assist users in developing Java plugins for Maven 2.0.

As an example, in Maven 2 plugin, I defined a configuration parameter like this:

/**
 * Some parameter.
 * 
 * @parameter
 * @required
 */
private String foo;

So now, using the new Maven Plugin API, I expect real Java annotations...

Question: Where can I find documentation / information about the development of Maven 3 plugins?

Upvotes: 34

Answers (7)

dermoritz

Reputation: 13038

In meantime the official doc seems to be up to date: http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html

(they use annotations everywhere)

Upvotes: 1

Olivier Lamy

Reputation: 2310

for the record you can have a look http://maven.apache.org/plugin-tools/maven-plugin-plugin/examples/using-annotations.html

Upvotes: 4

Romain Linsolas

Reputation: 81667

There is now a work-in-progress implementation of annotations for Maven plugins developments! Read the following links:

Upvotes: 4

Huluvu424242

Reputation: 765

I think the best source is http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/index.html Maybe it is not up to date but it is the best choice in my oppinion.

For developing maven plugins see section 11.

I hope it was helpfull.

Upvotes: 2