Set plugin’s version on the command line in Maven 2

maven-2, snapshot

Solution

If you don't want to run the latest version of a plugin installed in your local repository, you need to set the version number. And for that, you need to specify a fully-qualified goal in the form of:

mvn groupID:artifactID:version:goal

So in your case:

mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:2.5:checkstyle

Problem

I generate default quickstart Maven example, and type `mvn checkstyle:checkstyle`, it always try to use the lastest `SNAPSHOT` version. Probably it is wrong in my Nexus server, but how can I set plugin's version on the command line in Maven 2, like `2.5` for checkstyle instead of `2.6-SNAPSHOT`? ``` C:\HelloWorld>mvn checkstyle:checkstyle [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'checkstyle'. [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin Reason: Error getting POM for 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin' from the repository: Failed to resolve artifact, possibly due to a repository list that is not appropriately equipped for this artifact's metadata. org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin:pom:2.6-SNAPSHOT from the specified remote repositories: nexus (http://localhost:9081/nexus/content/groups/public) for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-checkstyle-plugin ``` I guess it could be `mvn checkstyle:2.5:checkstyle`, unfortunately it is not. Surely if I set build dependance in `pom.xml`, it will work, but I want to see how command line can work.

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