Apache Maven 3 Cookbook

Chapter 9
/**
* @goal wassup
*/
public class MyMojo2 extends AbstractMojo {
public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException {
getLog().info("Wassup");
}
}
2. The plugin project can now be built, and plugin goals executed as follows:
$ mvn install
$ mvn plug101:wassup
3. To enable your Apache Maven plugin to be externally configurable, you need to make
use of the parameter annotation (@parameter) in the MOJO while defining it, as
shown in the following code:
import java.util.Properties;
/**
* @parameter
*/
private Properties myProperties;
These are not typical Java 6 annotations and you need to
encapsulate them in the /** **/ comments tag.
4. Our next step is to modify the project's POM file to include the configuration for
myProperties. You will need to add a configuration element to your existing
structure, as shown in the following code:
...
name
Sri
age
26
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