POM Logging ?

[Sakari Isoniemi]

Hi,

Is logging POM operations so difficult as described in
http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin

So that every time yoy want to trace execution with ant echo command you
have to
declare "thirty" lines of XML clutter ?

Is it possible to code those xml lines only once and refer then to that ?

      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.1</version>
        <executions>
          <execution>
          <phase>package</phase>
            <id>echodir</id>
            <configuration>
              <tasks>
                <echo>Hello world-54</echo>
              </tasks>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>