I don't think it quite doable at the moment but there are some discussions for 2.1 : http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Substitution+of+Custom+Maven+Components
On 5/5/06, Aaron Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The maven-core artifact has a META-INF/plexus/components.xml that defines the default implementations for all the components. One can create a plugin that has it's own component.xml override and if a POM has this plugin configured with extention->true then the override will occur. I would like to take this a step further and somehow configure the default maven installation to use a custom component.xml file with custom implementations. For example, in the absence of a POM I would like the archetype plugin to use my implementation of the Archetype interface instead of the default one. Is there a way to modify the default super POM that all POM's extend from to use a custom plugin that defines new implementations for components? Is modifying and creating a custom maven-core artifact the only way to change the default implementations for components?
