Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Description
invoker:help Display help information on maven-invoker-plugin. Call 
 mvn invoker:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>
to display parameter details.
invoker:install Installs the project artifacts into the local repository as a preparation to run the integration tests. More precisely, all artifacts of the project itself, all its locally reachable parent POMs and all its dependencies from the reactor will be installed to the local repository.
invoker:run Searches for integration test Maven projects, and executes each, collecting a log in the project directory, and outputting the results to the command line.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven 2.0.6
JDK 1.4
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

Usage

You could run 'mvn -up' to get the latest version of this plugin, or specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.1</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.1</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>
For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"