Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Chapter 9
How to do it...
We start by generating an Apache Maven plugin project using an archetype. Archetypes, as
discussed earlier, are project templates, and the Maven community has made an archetype
available for generating a basic Maven plugin project.
1. Start your console and execute the following command:
$ mvn archetype:generate -DgroupId=net.srirangan.packt.maven
-DartifactId=maven-plug101-plugin -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.
maven.archetypes -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-mojo
2. Now build and install this project in your local repository with the following command:
$ mvn clean install
3. Open the MyMojo.java file in any text editor. If you are using an IDE (such as IntelliJ
IDEA or Eclipse), you can start by importing the project and then opening MyMojo.
java for editing.
You will see that the source code for the MOJO is already populated. We will replace
that code with an even simpler example, as shown in the following code:
import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;
/**
* @goal helloworld
*/
public class MyMojo extends AbstractMojo {
public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException {
getLog().info("Hello, world.");
}
}
4. Let's now modify the POM file (pom.xml) to include this plugin:
...
net.srirangan.packt.maven
maven-plug101-plugin
1.0-SNAPSHOT
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