maven-plugin-tools-java/src/site/apt/index.apt

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 Introduction
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 Vincent Siveton
 Hervé Boutemy
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 2011-10-23
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Maven Plugin Tool for Java

 The Maven Plugin Tool for Java is the Java impl of {{{../maven-plugin-tools-api/index.html}maven-plugin-tools-api}}
 to extract descriptors for plugins written in Java.

* Supported javadoc annotations

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import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;

/**
 * Mojo Description: goal is the only required annotation.
 *
 * @goal <goalName>
 * @aggregator
 * @configurator <roleHint>
 * @execute phase="<phaseName>" lifecycle="<lifecycleId>" goal="<goalName>"
 * @executionStrategy <once-per-session|always>
 * @inheritByDefault <true|false>
 * @instantiationStrategy <per-lookup>
 * @phase <phaseName>
 * @requiresDependencyResolution <compile|runtime|compile+runtime|test>
 * @requiresDependencyCollection <compile|runtime|compile+runtime|test> (since Maven 3.0)
 * @requiresDirectInvocation <true|false>
 * @requiresOnline <true|false>
 * @requiresProject <true|false>
 * @requiresReports <true|false> (unsupported since Maven 3.0)
 * @threadSafe (since Maven 3.0)
 * @since <since-text>
 * @deprecated <deprecated-text>
 */
public class MyMojo
    extends AbstractMojo
{
    /**
     * @parameter alias="myAlias" implementation="" expression="${aSystemProperty}" default-value="${anExpression}"
     * @component role="..." roleHint="..."
     * @readonly
     * @required
     * @since <since-text>
     * @deprecated <deprecated-text>
     */
    private String parameter;

    public void execute()
    {
        ...
    }
}
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* See also

 * {{{/developers/mojo-api-specification.html}Mojo API Specification}}

 * {{{/ref/current/maven-plugin-api/plugin.html}META-INF/maven/plugin.xml plugin descriptor}}