Building and using a plugin in the same build (m2)

[David Jencks <da...@yahoo.com>]

In geronimo, we have a plugin that uses a lot of core geronimo  
functionality, that we would like to use to construct pieces of the  
server.  We seem to have run into a design decision of m2 that a  
plugin cannot be built and used in the same build.

Is this correct, or are we doing something wrong?

Assuming this is correct, what is the thinking behind it?  To me, it  
seems like any project with any framework aspirations is almost  
certain to want to use pieces of itself to build itself, and the only  
way I know of to do this in maven is to write a plugin.  So, is the  
intention in maven really to force any such project to split the  
build up into at least two phases, the first where the stuff the  
plugin uses is built + the plugin, the second the stuff that uses the  
plugin?  To me this seems like close to a showstopper for using maven.

thanks
david jencks


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