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This page will take a stab to discuss "best practices" for building Maven Plugins. This page assumes that reader know the general "best practices" for Java Projects (as Maven Plugins are basically Java projects).


Maven Plugins are meant to be invoked by and run within Maven. Hence, one can draw a parallel between them and, for example, Java Servlets, where Servlet Container "provides" some dependencies to implementations. In this aspect: Maven is also a Container, container for Maven Plugins. Maven provides to plugins the "Maven API" classloader as parent, but to build a plugin, you still need to declare some depedencies.

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