One thing it can be used for is to define a different JDK to be used (than the one used for executing Maven itself). More info here: http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-using-toolchains.html
/Anders On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de>wrote: > Hi, > > maybe i didn't see a thing, but can someone explain me the intention of > the maven toolchain in relationship with a plugin ... > > Currently i only see that it can find some kind of executable which is > configured in somekind of buildcontext...which i currently don't understand > how to configure (I've taken a look into the maven-toolchains-plugin which > didn't enlighten me)... > > But what are the advantages / disadvantages of that ? > > May be i just be blockhead ...;-( > > > Kind regards > Karl Heinz Marbaise > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@maven.apache.org > >
