Hi all, I'm wondering if something in maven (a plugin for example) could help me to chain different plugin goals, not bounded to the default maven lifecycle.
My particular example is the fact that I'd want sort of maven alias allowing to say "when I launch 'mvn <myAlias>' I'd want to chain clean:clean, dependency:copy-dependencies and other home made plugin not bound to the default lifecycle (no need to validate, compile, package etc...)". I just browsed the existing maven plugins in apache & codehaus and it doesn't seem such a plugin exists. Am I completely off the standard maven behaviour ? I tried, too, to create a custom lifecycle in my "home made plugin", which would call clean:clean and dependency:copy-dependencies before executing my plugin main goal .. but I didn't succeeded due to the lack of documentation about new lifecycle creation (not bound to existing "default", "clean" and "site" lifecycles) :-( *(In every maven plugins I looked at, only the maven release plugin seems to create its own new lifecycle ... but I admit this plugin seems really complicated to understand !)* Would you have some pointers/advice about this problematic ? Thanks in advance. Frédéric
