------ Introduction ------ Vincent Siveton ------ 2012-05-14 ------ ~~ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one ~~ or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file ~~ distributed with this work for additional information ~~ regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file ~~ to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ~~ "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance ~~ with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at ~~ ~~ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ~~ ~~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, ~~ software distributed under the License is distributed on an ~~ "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY ~~ KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the ~~ specific language governing permissions and limitations ~~ under the License. ~~ NOTE: For help with the syntax of this file, see: ~~ http://maven.apache.org/doxia/references/apt-format.html Maven Plugin Tool API The Maven Plugin Tool API is the API to extract descriptors for all supported Maven plugins. Main component is {{{./apidocs/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/scanner/MojoScanner.html}MojoScanner}}. Each descriptor extractor needs to implement {{{./apidocs/org/apache/maven/tools/plugin/extractor/MojoDescriptorExtractor.html}MojoDescriptorExtractor}}.