maven plugin descriptor not getting generated
maven, maven-plugin
Solution
First i would try to set the packaging type to `maven-plugin` instead of the default which is `jar`. Furthermore i would suggest to use more up-to-date versions of plugins (maven-compiler-plugin: 3.1) and use a more up-to-date version of maven-plugin-api (3.0? but not 2.0).
Problem
I'm creating a maven plugin, MVN clean install build succeeds but plugin.xml is not getting generated. ``` @Mojo( name = "cover", defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.POST_INTEGRATION_TEST) public class RunCoverage extends AbstractMojo { @Parameter( property = "cover.wadl", defaultValue = "test") private String wadl; @Parameter( property = "cover.endpoints",defaultValue = "test") private String endpoints; @Override public void execute() throws MojoExecutionException { <somecode> } } ``` And the pom.xml is ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <artifactId>end-point-test-coverage</artifactId> <version>1</version> <dependencies> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId> <artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId> <version>2.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugin-tools</groupId> <artifactId>maven-plugin-annotations</artifactId> <version>3.2</version> </dependency> </dependencies> <build> <plugins> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId> <version>3.2</version> <executions> <execution> <id>default-descriptor</id> <goals> <goal>descriptor</goal> </goals> <phase>process-classes</phase> </execution> <execution> <id>help-descriptor</id> <goals> <goal>helpmojo</goal> </goals> <phase>process-classes</phase> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0.2</version> <configuration> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project> ``` Maven clean install doesn't generate plugin.xml When used in a dependent project, I'm getting the following error Failed to parse plugin descriptor for it.gruppopam.common:end-point-test-coverage:1 (/home/d/.m2/repository/it/common/end-point-test-coverage/1/end-point-test-coverage-1.jar): No plugin descriptor found at META-INF/maven/plugin.xml -> [Help 1] [ERROR]