Just to add a little bit of info on this, when you specify a plugin in your pom, you do it in the <build> section. It has one main purpose - configuring the plugin use. You don't need to specify every plugins you use if you use the default configuration values, Maven 2 is able to figure it out by itself. So don't worry about it for the moment. People are a bit scared at first because Maven 2 is pretty smart and rely on the "Convention over configuration" principle. Have fun!
On 5/18/06, Wayne Fay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A dependency is "something your project needs during compilation, testing, or runtime". A plugin is "something you want Maven to run during compilation, testing, packaging, etc to do *something* to your project/code". So your project might have a *dependency* on spring core. And it might use the *plugin* axistools-maven-plugin to generate WSDL out of your Java, or Java out of your WSDL. And it might use the *report* javancss-maven-plugin to report on lines of code in your project etc. I have to imagine this is all covered in the M2 book mentioned previously. Can't quote a specific page though... So keep reading. ;-) Wayne On 5/17/06, Andrew Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default location of your local repository is <home > directory>/.m2/repository, and you can walk the tree there to see what > has been downloaded. <home directory> in Windows XP is typically > c:\documents and settings\<username>. > > You should also try running mvn with the -X option, which prints out > debug information and makes the process easier to understand. For > example: mvn -X jar:jar > > On 5/17/06, Hycel Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So, I'm the one who added the dependency to my pom. However, when I > > executed the command, mvn jar:jar, I did not see any messages that it > > was downloading the spring core plugin. So, I have two questions: > > > > 1) Where can I look to verify that the plugin has been downloaded? > > > > 2) What's the difference in defining a plugin as apposed to a dependency? > > > > Thanks. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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