Hi Farhan, I think you can do what you want with a profile:
<http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-profiles.html> If you put your plugin's settings in a profile, then you could then use a cmdline something like: mvn -P profile-id plugin:goal Steve Farhan Sarwar wrote: > Basically I would want to run some maven goal for which I have provided the > configuration (e.g. the parameters it expects and other stuff) in a pom for > a project. Now what I would want to achieve is somehow associate a unique id > (which I guess in ant is called a target) associated with these settings I > have defined (like the plugin-name, the goal to execute, and the parameters > required for that goal) and call it directly (giving it just the id) like > mvn "[uniqueID]" and hence run that plugin/goal associated with that id > instead of running an entire build and process everything defined in that > pom (or otherwise where I could still achieve the objective)? I know maven > does provide a way to call a goal directly but I would want to further > xmlify the settings/parameters for that goal (within a plugin) and run it > independently. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
