On Wed, 3 May 2006, Kenney Westerhof-3 wrote: > > Also, on a related note, I > > am very confused by whether plugins are called (for example) > > "maven-jxr-plugin" or "jxr-maven-plugin". The Maven 2 book says clearly > to > > use the former, yet the only way I could get it to work was by fiddling > > until Maven somehow downloaded a plugin called "jxr-maven-plugin". Do > you > > know of any documentation that sheds some light on this? > > I think there's some wiki doco on this, but generally the rules are this: > > - maven core plugins use maven-XXX-plugin, groupId > org.apache.maven.plugins > - mojo.codehaus.org plugins use XXX-maven-plugin, groupId > org.codehaus.mojo > - your own plugins can be named whatever you like, but generally > maven-XXX-plugin with your company's groupId is used. > > We've been moving some plugins from mojo to maven core, so some of them > are renamed. There are also some older plugins on mojo.codehaus.org that > still use the old naming convention (maven-XXX-plugin). > > Hope this sheds some light on the situation! > > -- Kenney >
Very helpful thanks - and will be useful for future reference ... Toni -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-m2-Plugin-and-SNAPSHOT-woes-t1548994.html#a4214354 Sent from the Maven - Users forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
