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  Usage
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Usage
  
* Generic Plugin configuration information

  See the following links for information about including and configuring plugins in your project:
  
  *{{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-configuring-plugins.html}Configuring Plugins}}
  
  *{{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html}Plugin Development}}

  *{{{http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-plugin-prefix-mapping.html}Plugin Prefix}}

* The <<<uima-helper-plugin:parse-date-time>>> mojo

   This goal is bound to the first default lifecycle phase (validate) by default.
   Configure it in your
   <<<pom.xml>>>. 

     []

   Configure the plugin something like this:

+---+
<project>
  [...]
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.uima</groupId>
        <artifactId>uima-build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>get month</id>
            <goals>
              <goal>parse-date-time</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <parseSpecs>
                <parseSpec>
                  <propName>[ name of property to set, e.g. my.property ]</propName>
                  <format>[ format string - see below ]</format>
                  <locale>[ optional - a Java locale string ]</locale>
                </parseSpec>
              </parseSpecs>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  [...]
</project>

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* Format of the parse strings  

  The format string can contain arbitrary text, plus special patterns that must look something like

    yyyy or MMMM
  
  The pattern is one of the patterns defined for
  date or time in the 
  {{{http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html}SimpleDateFormat}}
  Java class.
  
  Spaces and new lines in the pattern are significant, and are copied into the result,
  except that leading or trailing white-space in the pattern is stripped.
  
  This means you can write:
+----+
    <format>
      yyyy
    </format>
+----+
  to get just the 4 digit year formatted.
  
  Any letters [a-z] or [A-Z] which you want copied into the result must be 
  surrounded by single quotes; otherwise they are interpreted as formatting specifications. 

  Some simple examples:
  
+---+
    <format>yyyy</format>          - produces, for example: 2010
    <format>MMMM</format>          - produces, for example, January
    <format>MMM</format>           - produces, for example, Jan
    <format>MMMM, yyyy</format>    - produces, for example, January, 2010
    <format>YYYY</format>          - causes an error - capital "Y" is not a valid formatting character.  
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