Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. This package contains strictly the API for plugins -- composed of goals implemented by Mojos -- development.

A plugin is described in a META-INF/maven/plugin.xml plugin descriptor, generally generated from plugin sources using maven-plugin-plugin.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model: builds, dependency management, documentation creation, site publication, and distribution publication are all controlled from the pom.xml declarative file. Maven can be extended by plugins to utilise a number of other development tools for reporting or the build process.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. This package contains strictly the model for Maven settings, that is simply plain java objects.

This component provides an API to filter resources in Maven projects.

This package contains the API to use Maven SureFire.

Maven Wagon is a transport abstraction that is used in Maven's artifact and repository handling code.

This package contains the API for the maven repository system.

The Surefire Plugin is used during the test phase of the build lifecycle to execute the unit tests of an application. It generates reports in two different file formats, plain text and xml.

This package contains shared code for all JUnit providers, starting from JUnit 4.

This package contains the service provider interface (SPI) for repository system implementations and repository connectors.

This package contains interfaces and utilities that are internal to the SureFire Logger API. It is designed to have no dependency.

This package contains the API for the maven repository system.

This package provides a tree-based API for resolution of Maven project dependencies.

This package contains the API for the maven repository system.

The Resources Plugin handles the copying of project resources to the output directory. There are two different kinds of resources: main resources and test resources. The difference is that the main resources are the resources associated to the main source code while the test resources are associated to the test source code.

Thus, this allows the separation of resources for the main source code and its unit tests.

The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your project. Since 3.0, the default compiler is javax.tools.JavaCompiler (if you are using java 1.6) and is used to compile Java sources. If you want to force the plugin using javac, you must configure the plugin option forceJavacCompilerUse.

Also note that at present the default source setting is 1.6 and the default target setting is 1.6, independently of the JDK you run Maven with. You are highly encouraged to change these defaults by setting source and target as described in Setting the -source and -target of the Java Compiler.

Other compilers than javac can be used and work has already started on AspectJ, .NET, and C#.

This package contains a transport implementation based on files, for use in Maven.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. This package contains strictly the model for Maven Repository Metadata, so really just plain objects.

This package contains Java 5 annotations for use in Mojos.

This package contains shared Java 5 code for all providers.

This package contains a transport implementation based on HTTP, for use in Maven.

This package contains the service provider interface (SPI) for repository system implementations and repository connectors.

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. This package contains the model for Maven POM (Project Object Model), so really just plain Java objects.

Surefire is a test framework project. This is the aggregator POM in Apache Maven Surefire project.