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Posted to issues@maven.apache.org by "Mykola Golubyev (JIRA)" <ji...@codehaus.org> on 2010/05/03 20:41:12 UTC

[jira] Created: (MNG-4656) Declarative plugins similar to "jsp tags" or "jsf composites"

Declarative plugins similar to "jsp tags" or "jsf composites"
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                 Key: MNG-4656
                 URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-4656
             Project: Maven 2 & 3
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: Design, Patterns & Best Practices
            Reporter: Mykola Golubyev


By now there is only one option to create maven plugin. And this is by using JVM based language.
There are situations when all you need is just to combine some already written plugins, pass to them some attributes and you can use this as a plugin. But you can't. You need to copy and paste bunch of plugins. And move some predefined configuration to pluginManagment.

I suggest to add mechanic which is similar to JSP tags or JSF composites.
Let's say

<pluginDefinition>
   <groupId>my.com</groupId>
   <artifactId>deploy</artifactId>

   <attribute name="path"/>
   <attribute name="list" type="..."/>

   <body>
      <plugin>
         <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
         <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
         <executions>
             <execution>
                ... ${path} ...
                ... ${list} ...
             </execution>
             ...
         </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
           ...
      </plugin>
   </body>
</pluginDefinition>

and then in some other pom.xml

<plugin>
   <groupId>my.com</groupId>
   <artifactId>deploy</artifactId>
   <configuration>
      <path>test.war</path>
      <list>
          <item>1</item>
          <item>2</item>
      </list>
   </configuration>
</plugin>

or something like this.

Thanks for the attention.

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