Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal Report? Description
invoker:help No Display help information on maven-invoker-plugin.
Call mvn invoker:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
invoker:install No Installs the project artifacts of the main build into the local repository as a preparation to run the sub projects. 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:integration-test No Searches for integration test Maven projects, and executes each, collecting a log in the project directory, will never fail the build, designed to be used in conjunction with the verify mojo.
invoker:report Yes Generate a report based on the results of the Maven invocations. Note: This mojo doesn't fork any lifecycle, if you have a clean working copy, you have to use a command like mvn clean integration-test site to ensure the build results are present when this goal is invoked.
invoker:run No Searches for integration test Maven projects, and executes each, collecting a log in the project directory, and outputting the results to the command line.
invoker:verify No Checks the results of maven-invoker-plugin based integration tests and fails the build if any tests failed.

System Requirements

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

Maven 2.2.1
JDK 1.5
Memory No minimum requirement.
Disk Space No minimum requirement.

Usage

You should 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>1.9</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>1.9</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
  <!-- To use the report goals in your POM or parent POM -->
  <reporting>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.9</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </reporting>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"