Inconsistent, missing docs for maven plugin naming conventions and auto
operations based on that
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Key: MNGSITE-128
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-128
Project: Maven Project Web Site
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Marshall Schor
Priority: Minor
The page
http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html has a
small entry under "shortening the command line" which says that artifactId
patterns maven-$name-plugin and $name-maven-plugin are treated specially (by
convention).
The email of Sep 27, 2008 to maven users list, from Stephen Connolly says
AFAIK only plugins with the groupId org.apache.maven.plugins are allowed to
use the maven-______-plugin pattern. I could not find this documented (other
than on the users email list.).
The page
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-prefix-mapping.html
says that the conventional mappings only happen for the "maven-$name-plugin"
style, and don't mention the other style ($name-maven-plugin).
I recommend using the text from the 1st ref (which seems to be the clearest) as
a starting point, to augment and expand the text in the 3rd ref.
The Complete Reference book is missing this information, as well, I believe.
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