buildSystems.md

10/1/2016 - 2:51 PM

Basics Maven

group id identifies project accross all projects hence it should be unique, ususally it is the package name like org.apache.maven, com.company.org
for multimodule project you will append to parents group id, org.apache.maven(parent) org.apache

artifact id is the name of the jar. like ictralcms or ecgs. If this is your jar you can create your name

for creating a maven plugin we need to creare a mojo (maven old java object)
a majo is equivalent of a maven goal, which extends functionality that is not already found in maven
a maven plugin is nothing but a mojo (a java class which extends AbstractMojo)
this maven project with the mojo will have a pom and hence will be an artifact
simply include this artifact in the build plugins sectio of the pom you want this plugin into and execute it as
- mvn groupId:artifactId:version:goal
if we follow above patern eg will be mvn sample.plugin:hello-maven-plugin:sayhi
if above is followed maven creates a shorthand for the plugin as ${prefix}-maven-plugin
so then we can now refer to this plugin as mvn hello:sayhi