The shade plugin can also create a “dependency reduced” pom. Dan
> On Sep 2, 2015, at 10:13 PM, Barrie Treloar <[email protected]> wrote: > > There are ~3000 plugins in Maven Central ( > http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|p%3A%22maven-plugin%22). My eyes > glazed over after scanning through the first 100 to see if there are plugin > names to indicate if they might re-write poms. > > So I'll stick with the available plugins list ( > http://maven.apache.org/plugins/) and it looks like the only plugins that > modify the pom are: > * release > * versions > > I've also looked at m2eclipse (https://github.com/eclipse/m2e-core.git) to > see how it rewrites poms. m2eclipse can get away with working with the > Eclipse provided StructuredModels to grab a dom version of the editor and > just rewrite that one section, knowing that it doesn't need to rewrite the > whole file. > > The Maven plugins on the other hand need to stream in the file and preserve > all the kooky white space and commenting, as well as update just the > sections they want to modify. > > The release plugin uses org.jdom.Element to manipulate rewrites, and > org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter with a raw formatter to write the pom file out. > > The versions plugin uses StringBuilder as an in memory copy of the pom file > and the StAX2 api to manipulate rewrites, and an XmlStreamWriter to write > the pom file out. > > Have I missed any plugins? > > For such a small number of plugins that need to make rewrites it probably > not necessary to have this functionality offered in Maven directly... -- Daniel Kulp [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
