Thanks to help from Brett and the ability to hit my head against the wall without giving up, I now have my plugin at least installing and working. However it only works when I execute it with the groupId:artifactId:goal formula. How do I set the prefix for it? I noticed a plugin.xml in my <repo>/com/intervoice/maven/plugins directory with the following content:
<metadata> <groupId>com.intervoice.maven.plugins</groupId> <plugins> <plugin> <prefix>hello</prefix> <artifactId>maven-hello-plugin</artifactId> </plugin> </plugins> </metadata> Since I didn't create it, m2 must have, however I have not found a way to actually use the prefix 'hello' with my goals. Also I use to have a settings.xml file, but since I wiped everything out and started fresh by building 2.0-beta-1, I no longer have a settings.xmlauto-generated. In its place I now have a plugin-registry.xml file. Somewhere, can't find the message at the moment, I saw an email that said I needed to add an xml fragment to my settings.xml, however the settings descriptor document doesn't show where to any <prefix/> element. So in a nutshell, how do I make this work? Wendell
