Interestingly, everything works correctly if I use a prefix of " axis2-aar". 
Not quite sure why.

[/Users/dave/projects/gpsdata/webservice] mvn help:describe
-Dplugin=axis2-aar
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'help'.
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building webservice
[INFO]    task-segment: [help:describe] (aggregator-style)
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] [help:describe {execution: default-cli}]
[INFO] org.apache.axis2:axis2-aar-maven-plugin:1.5.1

Name: Apache Axis2 - tool - AAR Maven Plugin
Description: A Maven 2 plugin for creating Axis 2 service archives (aar
  files)
Group Id: org.apache.axis2
Artifact Id: axis2-aar-maven-plugin
Version: 1.5.1
Goal Prefix: axis2-aar

This plugin has 4 goals:

axis2-aar:aar
  Description: Build a aar.
  Deprecated. No reason given

axis2-aar:deployaar
  Description: Deploys an AAR to the Axis2 server.
  Deprecated. No reason given

axis2-aar:exploded
  Description: Generate the exploded aar
  Deprecated. No reason given

axis2-aar:inplace
  Description: Generates aar in the source directory
  Deprecated. No reason given

For more information, run 'mvn help:describe [...] -Ddetail'

[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESSFUL
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 1 second
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Mar 16 12:48:11 NZDT 2010
[INFO] Final Memory: 7M/13M
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[/Users/dave/projects/gpsdata/webservice] 



nw31304 wrote:
> 
> I'm having the same problem, even after having read the maven plugin
> prefix mapping link.  MThe relevant portion of my POM is:
> 
> <build>
>   <plugins>
>     <plugin>
>        <groupId>org.apache.axis2</groupId>
>       <artifactId>axis2-aar-maven-plugin</artifactId>
>       <version>1.5.1</version>
>       <configuration>
>          <goalPrefix>aar</goalPrefix>
>       </configuration>
>     </plugin>
>   </plugins>
> </build>
> 
> Here's the result:
> 
> [/Users/dave/projects/gpsdata/webservice] mvn aar:exploded
> [INFO] Scanning for projects...
> Downloading:
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/axis2/axis2-aar-maven-plugin/1.5.1/axis2-aar-maven-plugin-1.5.1.pom
>       
> Downloading:
> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/axis2/axis2-aar-maven-plugin/1.5.1/axis2-aar-maven-plugin-1.5.1.jar
>        
> [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'aar'.
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-aar-plugin' does not
> exist or no valid version could be found
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [INFO] Total time: 2 seconds
> [INFO] Finished at: Tue Mar 16 12:38:18 NZDT 2010
> [INFO] Final Memory: 3M/5M
> [INFO]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
> So even though maven locates the plugin and installs it into the repo, it
> cannot find it for use.  Obviously I've missed something obvious.
> 
> --Dave
> 
> 
> Wendy Smoak-3 wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Martin Gainty <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>        Page Not Found
>> 
>> What page is not found?  The one Justin mentioned is there:
>> http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-prefix-mapping.html
>> 
>> (Watch wrapping, you may have to reconstruct the url if your mail
>> client breaks it.)
>> 
>> -- 
>> Wendy
>> 
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