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 Usage
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 Dennis Lundberg
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 2011-05-01
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Usage

  There are a couple things you need to do to use Maven Shared Resources. First
  you need to give the plugin that will use the resources access to them. After
  that you configure the plugin to actually use the resources.


* Add the resources to the plugin

  First you add maven-shared-resources as a dependency to a plugin in your
  <<<pom.xml>>>. This is done to give the plugin access to the resources within
  the maven-shared-resources JAR file. In this example we will use the resources
  in Maven Changes Plugin.

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<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <configuration>
          ...
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
          <dependency>
            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
            <artifactId>${project.artifactId}</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
          </dependency>
        </dependencies>
        <executions>
          ...
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
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* Configure the plugin to use the resources

  Now you can use the resources in the plugin. You can use them as if they
  existed in your own project, like this:

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<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-changes-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4</version>
        <configuration>
          <templateDirectory>org/apache/maven/plugins</templateDirectory>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
          ...
        </dependencies>
        <executions>
          ...
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
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  or like this:

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<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.14</version>
        <configuration>
          <configLocation>config/maven_checks.xml</configLocation>
          <headerLocation>config/maven-header.txt</headerLocation>
        </configuration>
        <dependencies>
          ...
        </dependencies>
        <executions>
          ...
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
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* Execute the plugin

  All is now set up to make use of the resources in the plugin for your project.
  Execute the plugin like you would normally do, to see the resources put to
  practical use.

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mvn changes:announcement-generate
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