Hi,
I have written a plugin and I was wondering if you think it's of any
use, and if so, if it could be part of the Mojo project.
The goal of the plugin is to make POM properties accessible from Java
code. It generates a Java class with some constants whose values are
defined in pom.xml. I call it the Project Info plugin. Example
generated class:
public class ProjectInfo
{
public static final String title = "My Title";
public String getTitle() {
return title;
}
}
Example POM configuration:
<configuration>
<properties>
<title>${project.name}</title>
</properties>
</configuration>
There are more features, but this shows the core of it.
Why such a plugin? The effect (accessing POM properties from Java) can
also be achieved via resource
filtering[http://blog.nigelsim.org/2011/08/31/programmatically-getting-the-maven-version-of-your-project/].
These are, in my opinion, the most significant advantages of either
method.
Advantages of the resource filtering method:
* project requires no additional dependencies
Advantages of using the plugin:
* most of the work (and error checking) is done at build time, rather
than run time; this is safer and more resource efficient
* reduces the amount of boiler plate code; project specific Java code
is generated, the author only writes a plugin configuration in the POM
Any comments would be appreciated!
Best regards,
Wouter
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