No you can not do it from system wide settings.xml http://maven.apache.org/maven-settings/settings.html descriptor does not have pluginManagement
How ever you can configure your project wide root pom as I have suggested. http://maven.apache.org/maven-model/maven.html#class_pluginManagement -Dan On 1/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Your suggestion still requires me to edit pom.xml (and > I don't even understand how that "pluginManagement" > stuff works). What I'm really looking for is something > which I can configure in MAVEN_HOME/conf/settings.xml > or somewhere else. My goal is to avoid putting any > settings into the POM, unless I want to override my > custom default system-wide plugin settings. > > I may misunderstand how exactly this works ... > > Thanks, > Chris > > --- dan tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > you can do that with build-->pluginManagement > > element > > > > -D > > > > > > On 1/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > I forgot to mention that this is related to Maven2 > > > (2.0.1) > > > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to preconfigure a couple of plugins > > (e.g. > > > > javadoc, etc.), so that they don't have to be > > > > configured in each single project. But it should > > > > still > > > > be possible to overwrite those settings (e.g. if > > we > > > > deal with a customer project which has very > > specific > > > > requirements for Javadoc, etc.). > > > > > > > > I looked at the settings descriptor and can not > > find > > > > anything related to plugins. Any hint on whether > > > > this > > > > is possible (and how) or not? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
