Benjamin wrote: >Just keep in mind that the Archetye Plugin itself "instantiates" archetypes. So when you talk about "adds no project infrastructure" it's not an issue of the plugin but a matter of creating an archetype that fits your needs.
Check this out! This runs mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.myco.quickplugin \ -DartifactId=test-plugin \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-plugin maven-archetype-plugin is a plugin and an archetype http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-4/ http://repo2.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/archetypes/maven-archetype-plugin/1.0/
