--- Multiple Language Support for the Plugin Plugin: Redesign Notes --- John Casey --- 09-Feb-2005 --- <> *Abstract The Plugin plugin needs to be refactored in order to support multiple mojo implementation languages. This document will detail the steps needed to add this functionality. *Current Status The plugin plugin currently calls out to a set of generators in the maven-plugin-tools library, which in turn uses qdox to generate various things based on annotations in the java source code. *Refactored Design The new design will have a generator-manager which is a component that the plugin mojos will lookup. This component will have access to a mapping of all generators and the language they're registered for. It'll iterate through the mappings, and extract mojo descriptors from all relevant scripts/sources using each language's registered generator. Results from each generator will be centrally aggregated by the generator-manager. After all generators have run, the generator-manager will call another class (depending on what it's meant to produce) to take all the aggregated mojo descriptors and produce a result (such as plugin.xml file for the project).