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Let's imagine you wish to get information from an installed plugin. You may think that the following would work:

${pom.getPluginContext('<artifactId>')
  .getProject()}

… but it doesn't! It returns your current Project's object and not the plugin's.

Here's a way to do it (Please send your ideas if you have a better solution):

${context.getMavenSession()
  .getPluginProjectFromGoal(
    '<goal of plugin to retrieve>')}

For example, to retrieve the Clover jar dependency from the Maven Clover plugin you would write:

${context.getMavenSession()
  .getPluginProjectFromGoal('clover')
  .getDependencyPath('clover:clover')}

Update 2005-05-05: Someone posted a good tip in the comments saying that you can also use:

<maven:get var="cloverPlugin" 
  plugin="maven-clover-plugin" 
  propery="plugin"/>

and then

${cloverPlugin.getDependencyPath(
  'clover:clover')}

Posted by vmassol on May 23, 2005 05:41 in M1 Tips | Modified by vmassol on Jun 11, 2006 05:31 | 0 Comment(s) | Permalink