How do I augment the release plugin?

[Niels B Nielsen <ni...@jpmorgan.com>]

Hi,

I would like to to utilize the maven-release-plugin (v 2.1) for one of our projects, but unfortunately I have a bit of a show stopper for actually doing this.

The mojo's in the maven-release-plugin utilize the maven-release-manager, which has a set of predefined release phases, such as this (for branching)
        <branchPhases>
          <phase>create-backup-poms</phase>
          <phase>check-poms</phase>
          <phase>scm-check-modifications</phase>
          <phase>map-branch-versions</phase>
          <phase>map-development-versions</phase>
          <phase>rewrite-poms-for-branch</phase>
          <phase>scm-commit-branch</phase>
          <phase>scm-branch</phase>
          <phase>rewrite-poms-for-development</phase>
          <phase>scm-commit-release</phase>
          <phase>end-release</phase>
        </branchPhases>

If I want to add additional phases in there, how would I go about doing it?
I  found the phases defined in a components-fragment.xml in the maven-release-manager plugin.

 I can see in the maven-release-plugin that it gets the MavenReleaseManager injected as a component, but I don't know if or how I can swap it out with a custom defined component. If anybody can point me to anything relevant I would be very grateful..

Regards


Niels B Nielsen | Lead Engineer
J.P. Morgan     | IBTech Global Rates Derivatives



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