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=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.
<pre>
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=help -Dfull
</pre>
To get information about a single goal, use <tt>-Dmojo</tt>:
<pre>
mvn help:describe -Dplugin=compiler -Dmojo=compile -Dfull
</pre>

Latest revision as of 18:30, 21 December 2016

External

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