Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
build-helper:help Display help information on build-helper-maven-plugin.
Call mvn build-helper:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
build-helper:jar-license Add a license file to created JAR files and, if applicable, source JAR files.

License files are first resolved relative to the current directory. If it cannot be found there, parent directories are checked until one of the following occurs:

  • The parent directory is not part of the Maven project (does not contain a pom.xml file), and is not the root directory of the current Git project.
  • The maximum number of parent directories has been reached.
build-helper:javadoc-license Add a license file to created Javadoc JAR files.

License files are first resolved relative to the current directory. If it cannot be found there, parent directories are checked until one of the following occurs:

  • The parent directory is not part of the Maven project (does not contain a pom.xml file), and is not the root directory of the current Git project.
  • The maximum number of parent directories has been reached.
build-helper:site-index Generate a Markdown site index based on another Markdown file. This goal will provide the following transformations:
  • Add an HTML title.
  • Make any link that starts with the project's URL relative to that URL.
  • Remove any badges that match any of a set of provided patterns. Badges will be removed if:
    • They are preceded by a space. In this case, the leading space is removed as well.
    • They are on a line of their own. In this case, the entire line is removed.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 3.8.2
JDK 1.8

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>com.github.robtimus</groupId>
          <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.1.1</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.robtimus</groupId>
        <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"