You might want to take a look at the maven-inherit-plugin: http://www.ops4j.org/projects/pax/construct/maven-inherit-plugin/
-Sven 2009/8/25 Anil-C <achalamalase...@gmail.com> > > I am trying to create a new plugin webapp with two goals clean and refresh > to > extend the functionality of the maven-war-plugin. webapp:clean would clean > the webappDirectory and webapp:refresh would refresh the warSourceDirectory > and apply modifications to the webappDirectory (similar to war:exploded but > doesn't proces the source directory) skipping the web.xml (guessed it > right, > hotdeploy for jsp's, tags, images alone) and ofcourse use the configuration > defined in maven-war-plugin as it is like any filtering, blah blah, without > . > > The way i am hoping to achieve this is,get hold of the maven-war-plugin > instance based on the project pom somehow and invoke custom methods with in > that Mojo. I don't know if there is a way to do the first part? > > I have digged through the users forum and the tutorials/blogs available on > maven plugin development. However, i couldn't find a good example that i > can > refer to in my situation. I am not experience plugin writer (infact this is > the first onmy own, apart from the standard hello world examples). Any > suggesstions that can help me getting through my first plugin is greatly > appreciated. > > Thank you > Anil > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Can-we-write-a-custom-webapp-plugin-that-uses-the-war-plugin-and-its-configruation--tp25140948p25140948.html > Sent from the Maven - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >