Newbie Goals question.

[Scott Erler]

maven -g shows the only goal I get is build:start.  I would like to be
able to get all of the goals from the java plugin.  Is there an easy way
to do it?
 
For now I made a maven.xml file to get java:compile.
 
<project
  xmlns:j="jelly:core"
  xmlns:m="maven">
 
  <preGoal name="java:compile">
  </preGoal>
 
</project>
 
What am I doing wrong?
 
Scott Erler