Name: Apache Maven Help Plugin
Description: The Maven Help plugin provides goals aimed at helping to make sense out of the build environment.
It includes the ability to view the effective POM and settings files,
after inheritance and active profiles have been applied,
as well as a describe a particular plugin goal to give usage information.
Plugin coordinates:
Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-help-plugin
Version: 3.2.0
Goal Prefix: help
The goal
help:help gives general information about the
help plugin and lists its goals:
The goal
help:describe gives detailed information about any Maven plugin and lists its goals:
The
help plugin has the following goals:
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help:
Displays help information on maven-help-plugin.
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describe:
Displays a list of the attributes for a Maven Plugin and/or goals (aka Mojo - Maven plain Old Java Object).
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system:
Displays a list of the platform details like system properties and environment variables.
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effective-pom:
Displays the effective POM as an XML for this build.
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effective-settings:
Displays the calculated settings as XML for this project.
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active-profiles:
Displays a list of the profiles which are currently active for this build.
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all-profiles:
Displays a list of available profiles under the current project.
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evaluate:
Evaluates Maven expressions given by the user in an interactive mode.