Not exactly. A plugin is a component that Maven recognizes and can
use to perform some task. When you declare a dependency (as below)
you are simply telling Maven that your project needs that resource
for the specified scope.
It would help if you went through a few tutorials and tried a few
things with it.
This article is a little dated, and covers Maven 1, but I think it
would help get you bootstrapped into a better understanding of what
Maven is about:
http://www.theserverside.com/articles/article.tss?l=MavenMagic
HTH
--
James Mitchell
P.S. -- Google is your friend
On Apr 26, 2006, at 12:26 AM, Anshuman Srivastava wrote:
Hi,
I am using maven2.0.3 and fairly new to Maven.
Anyone please tell me that using Maven Plugin is same as adding the
information in dependency section of pom.xml like --
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
.
If its not the same then what is the difference between plugins and
these
dependencies?
Thanks
Anshuman
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