Plugins in Maven and POM.xml

java, maven, maven-3, maven-plugin, pom.xml

Solution

<project>
    <groupId>org.koshik.javabrains</groupId>
    <artifactId>JarName</artifactId> (A fldernamed JarName was created) 
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>JarName</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
                <artifactId>jibx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.2.4</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>bind</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>

You can also place plugins in the `<build>` section of `<profile>` if you use maven profiles. The order doesn't matter.

Problem

I just started using Maven and I read that plugins are additional components that can be used. A typical structure of `pom.xml` file is ``` <project> <groupId>org.koshik.javabrains</groupId> <artifactId>JarName</artifactId> (A fldernamed JarName was created) <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>jar</packaging> <name>JarName</name> <url>http://maven.apache.org</url> <properties> <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding> </properties> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>3.8.1</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project> ``` Question: Where should I insert a `plugin` tag? such as the following: ``` <plugin> <groupId>org.jibx</groupId> <artifactId>jibx-maven-plugin</artifactId> <version>1.2.4</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>bind</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> ``` Before the dependency or after the `dependency` tag? Does it matter?

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