Simplify drop in of 3rd party extensions for Maven core
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Key: MNG-4984
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4984
Project: Maven 2 & 3
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Class Loading, Command Line
Affects Versions: 3.0.2
Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann
To enhance a stock Maven distro, 3rd parties can drop additional JARs into the
distro's {{lib}} directory. If those JARs need to replace default components,
the extension needs to be placed first on the classpath to ensure the Plexus
container looks up the desired impl. Ensuring that the 3rd party JARs get
loaded before the stock Maven JAR requires currently editing the {{m2.conf}}
used to bootstrap Classworlds. To eliminate this last step, we can support a
dedicated {{ext}} directory that gets loaded before the default JARs.
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