Trevor,
It may look similar, but with Maven you don't actually have "targets"
like you used to with Ant, e.g. plugins are discovered dynamically and
often may not even require special configuration, so if will really
clutter popup menu if we add all possible goals in there.
However, in many cases project can be configured to bind custom
plugins to the standard build life cycle phases, such as "install",
"package", etc. See
http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html
In your case you can probably bind your docbook plugin execution to
"package" build cycle phase, then standard shortcut would just work.
Also, it may not be obvious, but you can use "Run as... / Maven build"
(Ctrl-Shift-X, M) shortcut to quickly launch custom goals on selected
project (you can also remap shortcut to your own preferences in Window /
Preferences / General / Keys). That action remembers created
configurations and if there is more then one it will show you selection
dialog, so it work ok without mouse.
Finally, you can vote on the following enhancement request that is
suggesting to add custom shortcuts for Maven launch:
MNGECLIPSE-351: allow to configure custom maven launch shortcuts
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGECLIPSE-351
regards,
Eugene
Trevor Harmon wrote:
In the goal field, click select, you're done for the list of every
plugins and goals I guess.
Click on Maven/Run as/Maven Build,
Thanks, but I don't want a list of every goal, just the ones that are
actually available in the current POM. For instance, I have a simple
POM that only adds in the docbkx plugin. Having to go through Run >
Run As > Maven Build... > Select > docbkx > generate-html > OK > Run
is much more tedious and time consuming than, say, Run > Run As >
Maven install.
It would be nice if Maven could detect the plugins that the POM has
declared and populate the Run As menu accordingly. For example:
Maven build
Maven clean
Maven docbkx
\- generate-html
generate-pdf
generate-text
Maven install
...
This is the kind of thing I'm used to in Ant. For instance, if you add
a new target to an Ant build file, Eclipse will automatically show it
in the Outline pane. You can then can right-click on it, choose Run As
> Ant Build, and Eclipse will run the target. It's that simple. No
need to manually create Run Configurations or pick a goal from a list
of hundreds over and over again. It's disappointing that Maven is a
step down from Ant in this regard.
Trevor
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