I don't think it quite doable at the moment but there are some discussions
for 2.1 :
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/MAVEN/Substitution+of+Custom+Maven+Components
On 5/5/06, Aaron Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The maven-core artifact has a META-INF/plexus/components.xml that defines
the default implementations for all the components. One can create a plugin
that has it's own component.xml override and if a POM has this plugin
configured with extention-true then the override will occur.
I would like to take this a step further and somehow configure the default
maven installation to use a custom component.xml file with custom
implementations. For example, in the absence of a POM I would like the
archetype plugin to use my implementation of the Archetype interface instead
of the default one.
Is there a way to modify the default super POM that all POM's extend from
to use a custom plugin that defines new implementations for components? Is
modifying and creating a custom maven-core artifact the only way to change
the default implementations for components?
