Maven help Plugin

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Internal

Overview

The help plugin is used to get information the system, project or a particular plugin.

Goals

help:active-profiles

help:effective-pom

Displays the effective POM for the current build, with the active profiles factored in.

help:effective-settings

Prints out the calculated settings for the project, given any profile enhancement and the inheritance of the global settings into the user-level settings.

help:describe

Describes the attributes of a plugin.

mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help -Dfull

To get information about a single goal, use -Dmojo:

mvn help:describe -Dplugin=compiler -Dmojo=compile -Dfull