It can cause problems when you have another plugin artifact listed as your dependency so this probably won't work.
-----Original Message----- From: Kallin Nagelberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 3:37 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Plugins within plugins: best practices What about creating a mojo instance manually from within another plugin.. Has anyone tried this? On Dec 29, 2007 11:37 PM, Kallin Nagelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to run the unpack and copy goals repeatedly, with given > group:artifact:version and different target directories for each one. > > > On Dec 29, 2007 4:23 PM, Brian E. Fox < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Which part is it that you need to use in the dependency plugin? The > > actual copying and unpacking is mostly delegated to the maven-archiver > > component. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Kallin Nagelberg [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:03 PM > > To: Maven Users List > > Subject: Plugins within plugins: best practices > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've created a standalone plugin in which I'm doing some > > unpacking/copying > > of artifacts in addition to a few other things. I would like to defer > > the > > unpacking/copying operations to the maven dependency plugin for obvious > > reasons. > > > > Has anyone tried creating and configuring a plugin instance within > > another > > plugin and calling the execute method directly? I'm tempted to try this, > > but > > am worried about potential side effects. I figure I can try to build the > > plugin instance with what components I've already got within my plugin > > and > > pass them along. Is there a better way to use this, perhaps some sort of > > core maven plugin builder? > > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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]
