The Maven Plugin Tool for Annotations is the java-annotations implementation of maven-plugin-tools-api to extract descriptors from plugins written in Java with Maven Plugin Tools Java 5 Annotations.
import org.apache.maven.execution.MavenSession; import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo; import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecution; import org.apache.maven.plugin.descriptor.PluginDescriptor; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Component; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Execute; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.InstantiationStrategy; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter; import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.ResolutionScope; import org.apache.maven.project.MavenProject; import org.apache.maven.settings.Settings; /** * Mojo Description. @Mojo( name = "<goal-name>" ) is the minimal required annotation. * @since <since-text> * @deprecated <deprecated-text> */ @Mojo( name = "<goal-name>", aggregator = <false|true>, configurator = "<role hint>", executionStrategy = "<once-per-session|always>", inheritByDefault = <true|false>, instantiationStrategy = InstantiationStrategy.<strategy>, defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.<phase>, requiresDependencyResolution = ResolutionScope.<scope>, requiresDependencyCollection = ResolutionScope.<scope>, // (since Maven 3.0) requiresDirectInvocation = <false|true>, requiresOnline = <false|true>, requiresProject = <true|false>, requiresReports = <false|true>, // (unsupported since Maven 3.0) threadSafe = <false|true> ) // (since Maven 3.0) @Execute( goal = "<goal-name>", phase = LifecyclePhase.<phase>, lifecycle = "<lifecycle-id>" ) public class MyMojo extends AbstractMojo { /** * @since <since-text> * @deprecated <deprecated-text> */ @Parameter( name = "parameter", alias = "myAlias", property = "a.property", defaultValue = "an expression, possibly with ${variables}", readonly = <false|true>, required = <false|true> ) private String parameter; @Component( role = MyComponentExtension.class, hint = "..." ) private MyComponent component; // sample objects taken from Maven API through PluginParameterExpressionEvaluator @Parameter( defaultValue = "${session}", readonly = true ) private MavenSession session; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project}", readonly = true ) private MavenProject project; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${mojoExecution}", readonly = true ) private MojoExecution mojo; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${plugin}", readonly = true ) // Maven 3 only private PluginDescriptor plugin; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${settings}", readonly = true ) private Settings settings; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project.basedir}", readonly = true ) private File basedir; @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project.build.directory}", readonly = true ) private File target; public void execute() { ... } }