Definitely useful... I ran into this in the GPG plugin just last week. I added a sign-and-deploy-file mojo that I wanted to just extend the deploy-file mojo from the deploy plugin. Ended up being a lot harder to do than I expected. Had to resort to some reflection magic to fill in fields in the super class. Really sucked actually.
Dan On Wednesday 26 September 2007, Jason van Zyl wrote: > On 25 Sep 07, at 10:21 PM 25 Sep 07, Brian E. Fox wrote: > > This is interesting functionality that the dev team should be aware > > of. > > I know it's frequently asked how to extend a plugin. > > We could definitely integrate this method, would be highly useful. > > When we integrate the anno-mojo stuff we'll have this with > annotations but doing this with the existing mechanism would be good. > > > --Brian > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Stuart McCulloch > > Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 11:21 AM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: mojo inheritance > > > > Hi, > > > > I've developed a small plugin that lets you extend mojos from other > > maven > > plugins by merging the plugin metadata: > > > > > > http://www.ops4j.org/projects/pax/construct/maven-inherit-plugin/ > > index.h > > tml > > > > I've successfully used this to extend various core plugins - is > > anyone interested in this approach (or is it a bad idea?) > > > > -- > > Cheers, Stuart > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > jason at sonatype dot com > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- J. Daniel Kulp Principal Engineer IONA P: 781-902-8727 C: 508-380-7194 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dankulp.com/blog --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
