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| <properties> |
| <title>Introduction</title> |
| <author>Vincent Siveton</author> |
| <author email="hboutemy_AT_apache_DOT_org">Hervé Boutemy</author> |
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| <body> |
| |
| <section name="Maven Plugin Tools"> |
| |
| <p>The Maven Plugin Tools contains the necessary tools to generate rebarbative content like descriptor, |
| help and documentation. In addition, it provides tools to write Maven Plugins in scripting languages |
| like Ant or Beanshell.</p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <img src="images/plugin-tools-deps.png" width="826" height="491" border="0" usemap="#PluginTools_dependencies" /> |
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| <area shape="rect" coords="279,0,508,38" alt="maven-plugin-plugin" href="./maven-plugin-plugin" /> |
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| <area shape="rect" coords="657,181,825,218" alt="plexus-velocity" href="http://plexus.codehaus.org/plexus-components/plexus-velocity/"/> |
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| </p> |
| |
| <table> |
| <tr><th><b>Module</b></th><th><b>Overview</b></th></tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><b><a href="./maven-plugin-plugin/index.html">maven-plugin-plugin</a></b></td> |
| <td>Create a Maven plugin descriptor for any mojos found in the source tree, generate reports, create help goal.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="./maven-plugin-tools-generators/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-generators</a></td> |
| <td>Generators (XML descriptor, help, documentation), used by maven-plugin-plugin to generate content from descriptor extracted from sources.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="./maven-plugin-tools-api/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-api</a></td> |
| <td>Descriptor extractor API, used by maven-plugin-plugin to extract Plugin information.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-tools-java/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-java</a></td> |
| <td>Descriptor extractor for plugins written in Java annotated with Mojo Javadoc Tags.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-tools-javadoc/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-javadoc</a></td> |
| <td>Provides doclets to support Mojo Javadoc Tags in the Javadoc Tool.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-tools-annotations/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-annotations</a></td> |
| <td>Descriptor extractor for plugins written in Java with Java 5 annotations.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-annotations/index.html">maven-plugin-annotations</a></td> |
| <td>Provides the Java 5 annotations to use in Mojos.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-tools-beanshell/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-beanshell</a></td> |
| <td>Descriptor extractor for plugins written in Beanshell.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-plugin-tools-ant/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-ant</a></td> |
| <td>Descriptor extractor for plugins written in Ant.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="./maven-plugin-tools-model/index.html">maven-plugin-tools-model</a></td> |
| <td>API to play with the Maven Plugin Metadata Model for script-based plugins.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td><a href="./maven-script/index.html">maven-script</a></td> |
| <td>Maven Script Mojo Support lets developer write Maven plugins/goals with scripting languages instead of compiled Java.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-script/maven-script-beanshell/index.html">maven-script-beanshell</a></td> |
| <td>Maven Beanshell Mojo Support, ie write Maven plugins with Beanshell scripts.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td> <a href="./maven-script/maven-script-ant/index.html">maven-script-ant</a></td> |
| <td>Maven Ant Mojo Support, ie write Maven plugins with Ant script.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| |
| <subsection name="See Also"> |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="/plugin-testing/">Maven Plugin Testing</a></li> |
| <li><a href="/ref/current/maven-plugin-api/">Maven Plugin API</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </subsection> |
| |
| </section> |
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| </body> |
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| </document> |
