Name: Apache Maven Source Plugin

Description: The Maven Source Plugin creates a JAR archive of the source files of the current project.

Plugin coordinates:
Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-source-plugin
Version: 3.1.0

Goal Prefix: source

The goal help:help gives general information about the source plugin and lists its goals:
$ mvn source:help $ mvn source:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=aggregate
The goal help:describe gives detailed information about the source and lists its goals:
$ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin" $ mvn help:describe -Dplugin="org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-source-plugin" -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=aggregate
The source plugin has the following goals:

• help: Display help information on maven-source-plugin.
  
  
• jar: This plugin bundles all the sources into a jar archive.
  
  
• test-jar: This plugin bundles all the test sources into a jar archive.
  
  
• jar-no-fork: This goal bundles all the sources into a jar archive. This goal does not fork the build and is suitable for attaching to the build lifecycle.
  
  
• test-jar-no-fork: This goal bundles all the test sources into a jar archive. This goal functions does not fork the build, and is suitable for attaching to the build lifecycle.
  
  
• aggregate: Aggregate sources for all modules in an aggregator project.
  
  
• generated-test-jar: This plugin bundles all the test sources into a jar archive.
  

<plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.1.0</version> <executions> <execution> <id>source</id> <phase>package</phase> <goals> <goal>jar</goal> <goal>test-jar</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin>