Im fairly new to maven. Tried getting answers to these from books and google. Trying my luch here
1. can I add more custom phases to the 23 already defined ( http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html#Lifecycle_Reference ) ( - I read that phases are already hard coded in a file called components.xml which is used at compile time. This seemed to imply that I cannot ad/change to teh list of existing phases. On teh other hand I read that phases can be added by using <extensions> ( needs a custom plugin/mojo to be written ) 2. Is it possible to turn off a particular phase from being fired for an already given packaging ( say jar : Can I turn off test phase - [ Im aware of skip.test=true. My question was more general ] ) 3. Is it possible to turn off a plugin from being fired for a particular phase. 4. If I have an ant task that requires a <taskdef>, which is teh preferred way to provide the class file that implements the task : - As a plugin dependency ? 5. In general I noticed that antrun was slow. Was this something in our environment. Or is it known to be slow in general Thank you very much. --sony
