[xdoclet-user] Using maven2-xdoclet2-plugin

[Sasvata Chatterjee]

Hi,

I just read some discussion about cheking in the m2 xdoclet2 plugin, and also saw the initial rev had been checked in recently.  Is the plugin buildable and usable without building all of Xdoclet2 (i.e. are the required POMs/dependencies/snaphsots available on a public repo somewhere)? Even better, would it be possible to get a SNAPSHOT of the maven2-xdoclet2-plugin from somewhere?

I have written a couple of Xdoclet2 plugins, which I would like to invoke from/using the maven2-xdoclet2-plugin.  I deduced from the Config class that a plugin name is provided as part of the plugin configuration in the POM.  That means each user of my plugins would have to add additional dependencies (for my Xdoclet2 plugin classes) in each of their POMs, which I'd rather avoid.  I am wondering if I should create a Maven2 plugin, which would declare dependencies on the maven2-xdoclet2-plugin, and where my plugin's Mojo would simply extend XdocletMojo, and in the execute() method simply do a super.execute().  Would that work, and is that the recommended way to use the maven2-xdoclet2-plugin?

Thanks in advance,
Shash