Friday, April 24, 2009

The Maven Exec Plugin

The Exec plugin allows you to execute Java classes and other scripts. It is not a core Maven plugin, but it is available from the Mojo project hosted by Codehaus. For a full description of the Exec plugin, run:
$ mvn help:describe -Dplugin=exec -Dfull


This will list all of the goals that are available in the Maven Exec plugin. The Help plugin will also list all of the valid parameters for the Exec plugin. If you would like to customize the behavior of the Exec plugin you should use the documentation provided by help:describe as a guide. Although the Exec plugin is useful, you shouldn’t rely on it as a way to execute your application outside of running tests during development. For a more robust solution, use the Maven Assembly plugin that is demonstrated in the section Section 4.13, “Building a Packaged Command Line Application”,” later in this chapter.

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