Build Plugin

This is a Maven 2.x/3.x Ant Plugin which is used by Apache Commons builds. See the Development page for information to help maintain this plugin.

Plugin goals:

Available Goals:

• commons-build:all - Generate all pages for the component's latest release (but not sandbox pages.)
• commons-build:all-sandbox - Generate all pages for the sandbox component's latest release.
• commons-build:download-page - Generate a Download page for the component's latest release.
• commons-build:mail-page - Generate a custom Mailing List page for a component.
• commons-build:jira-page - Generate a custom JIRA Issue Tracking page for a component.
• commons-build:sandbox-jira-page - Generate a custom JIRA Issue Tracking page for a Sandbox component.
• commons-build:copy-javadoc-files - Copy NOTICE and LICENSE files to -javadoc jar.
• commons-build:readme-md - Generate a README.md file containing information for contributors from GitHub.
• commons-build:contributing-md - Generate a CONTRIBUTING.md file containing information on how to contribute for contributors from GitHub.

Trying out the plugin

Configure the plugin in the <build> section of the pom.xml

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
  <artifactId>commons-build-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.13</version>
</plugin>

Configure any properties required by the goal and try executing.

mvn commons:download-page [-Dcommons.release.version=1.2.3]

As noted above, you can override POM properties if necessary.

To use a SNAPSHOT version (for testing etc)

mvn org.apache.commons:commons-build-plugin:1.14.0-SNAPSHOT:download-page [-Dcommons.release.version=1.2.3]