Purely myth. See the build lifecycle doco for more info, but you can name it however you'd like.
- Brett Brian E. Fox wrote: >> 2. Should we correct the plugin names? > > "+0 First dispel a rumor for me. Someone suggested that some of the > names > are that way to support handling of specific custom packaging. For > example the maven-sar-plugin automatically handled > <packaging>sar</packaging> but when I changed it to > jboss-sar-maven-plugin prior to committing it to the sandbox it seems to > have broken that. Are some of these named purposefully? " > > I have no information either way, but I'm curious now. Can someone else > confirm or deny? >