It's much easier than that - the information is recorded in
META-INF/maven/plugin.xml.

The stumbling point so far is whether we want to support that.

I think we need to decide between the current angle of "mojo is a
wrapper around specialised tools" and "mojo is a tool itself".

- Brett

John Casey wrote:
> will commons-attributes also do something similar to this? Just
> wondering out loud...
> 
> -j
> 
> Rafal Krzewski wrote:
>> Brett Porter wrote:
>>> no, sorry. The annotations are read from source files, not binaries.
>>
>> It's possible to post process .class files with BCEL or ASM and add
>> custom attributes to the classfile elements (fields, methods). AspectJ
>> does that for one example. At runtime these attributes may be accessed
>> reflectively by parsing the classfiles.
>> Maybe it's kind of an overkill, but it could be fun :-) No, I am not
>> volunteering :-)
>>
>> R.
>>
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