Hi, in the last weeks I have thought a little bit about Maven plugins. The initial question was my desire to reuse another plugin.
There are good reasons for reusing plugins. As an example, think of a plugin, which creates a jar file. Might be the retro* plugins or something like that.I would think it makes sense to reuse the jar plugin in such a case. The problem with reusing plugins is that they consist in fact of two parts: One part is the lifecycle management. The other part is the actual code. For example, the jar plugin contains some rules which ensure that it is called in the "package" phase. Besides, there is code which actually creates a jar file based on a configuration. The point I am trying to make is that such a plugin should possibly be split into these two parts. If so, the implementation part might be reused, while the lifecycle management part might still perform its task. What do you think? Jochen -- Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. (Mark Twain) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]