On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Balasubramanian, Ravi Shankar < rbala...@informatica.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I am executing a plugin's goal directly through the maven command. It is > executed as follows: > > mvn clover2:setup ( which executes the setup goal of the clover2 plugin) > > However, I want another plugin's goal to be executed before the > clover2:setup goal is executed which I have to mention in the pom.xml. > Is there a way to find out which phase does the plugin's goal actually > executes when we call it directly ? > As far as I understand it, when you invoke a plugin directly, there is no phase per se -- you're just invoking a plugin. You could invoke two plugins (mvn clover2:setup jetty:run), or create a profile where you bind each plugin two phases in sequence, but you can't bind one plugin to another's invocation. - Geoffrey -- Geoffrey Wiseman http://www.geoffreywiseman.ca/