Plugins

Install Plugin

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/index.html

Wanted to install the JMeter jar files into the Maven 2 repository.

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jakarta-jmeter -DartifactId=jmeter-core -Dversion=2.1.1 -Dfile=C:\tools\jakarta-jmeter-2.1.1\lib\ext\ApacheJMeter_core.jar -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

This command has the following parameters:

Parameter	Description	Example
groupId	First level folder name in the repository	`jakarta-jmeter`
artifactId	Second level folder name in the repository	`jmeter-core`
version	Version of the jar file	`2.1.1`
file	Path and file to the jar file	C:toolsjakarta-jmeter-2.1.1libextApacheJMeter_core.jar
packaging	Type of file, e.g. jar, zip, war	`jar`
generatePom	Generate the POM file	`true`

…and installs:

C:\tools\jakarta-jmeter-2.1.1\lib\ext\ApacheJMeter_core.jar

into:

C:\Documents and Settings\patrickk\.m2\repository\jakarta-jmeter\jmeter-core\2.1.1\jmeter-core-2.1.1.jar

The dependency section in the pom.xml for this jar file is:

<dependency>
  <groupId>jakarta-jmeter</groupId>
  <artifactId>jmeter-core</artifactId>
  <version>2.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Note: See repository.html for information on which repository to use for deploying dependencies.

Plugin Management

Optimal Maven Plugin configuration

Parent pom.xml:

<build>
  <pluginManagement>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.0-beta-7</version>
      </plugin>

Module pom.xml:

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
      <configuration>
        <tagBase>svn://127.0.0.1/mycompany/tags/module</tagBase>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>

Version

To find the version of a plugin:

mvn -Dplugin=surefire help:describe

In this example, surefire is the name of the plugin I am checking.