How can I Override plexus component descriptor?

I hope this is the right forum to ask this question. When writing a maven Mojo the maven @component annotation allows you to inject a plexus component. My question is how can I configure this plexus component to use a custom components.xml instead of the default components.xml in the component'

Best way to extend a plugin

Hi, I want to make some modifications to the way release-plugin works. For example I want to make some modifications to the way snapshots are handled in the check-dependency-snapshots phase. I know I can just grab the source code of maven-release and modify CheckDependencySnapshotsPhase and instal