You have decided to write a Maven Plugin. Now the important part comes around the corner: How to test a Maven Plugin? There are in general several options to test a Maven Plugins for example:

• Maven Invoker
• Maven Verifier
• Maven Plugin Testing Harness
• etc.

You can read about different reason not to use one of those …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Archetype Plugin, version 3.2.0.

In short, Archetype is a Maven project templating toolkit. An archetype is defined as an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made. The names fits as we are trying to …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.3.1.

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.

You should specify the version in your project's …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Site Plugin, version 3.9.1.

The Site Plugin is used to generate a site for the project. The generated site also includes the project's reports that were configured in the POM.

You can download the appropriate sources etc. from the download …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Reporting Exec Version 1.5.1.

Classes to prepare report plugins execution with Maven 3, through MavenReportExecutor (implementation).

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

1 …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Surefire Plugin, version 3.0.0-M5.

The release contains 40 bug fixes. Again we received contributions from the community in form of bug reports and bug fixes. Thank you and keep them coming!

You should specify the version in your project's …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven EJB Plugin Version 3.1.0.

This plugin generates J2EE Enterprise Javabean (EJB) file as well as the associated client jar.

1<plugin>
2  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
3  <artifactId>maven-ejb-plugin …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven WAR Plugin, version 3.3.0.

The WAR Plugin is responsible for collecting all artifact dependencies, classes and resources of the web application and packaging them into a web application archive.

You should specify the version in your project's …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Apache Maven Shade Plugin, version 3.2.4.

This plugin provides the capability to package the artifact in an uber-jar, including its dependencies and to shade - i.e. rename - the packages of some of the dependencies.

You should specify the version in your …

The Apache Maven team is pleased to announce the release of the Maven Resolver Ant Tasks version 1.2.1.

The Maven Artifact Resolver Ant Tasks enable build scripts for Apache Ant 1.7+ to use Maven Artifact Resolver combined to Apache Maven Artifact Resolver Provider to resolve dependencies and install and deploy locally …