We are pleased to announce the Maven Abbot Plugin 1.2-SNAPSHOT release! 

http://maven.apache.org/maven-1.x/plugins/abbot/

Run Abbot tests 

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Changes in this version include:

  Changes:

o Upgrade to Xerces 2.8.0. Replace the deprecated xmlParserAPIs by xml-apis 
  1.3.03. Add the xml-resolver dependency for xerces. Fixes MAVEN-1753. 
o Update dependencies to match ones in maven 1.1 core and to unify them 
  between plugins. The following dependencies are updated : ant v1.5.3-1 
  -> v1.6.5 ant-junit (ant-optional) v1.5.3-1 -> v1.6.5 
  commons-jelly-tags-xml v1.0 -> v1.1 jdom v b10 -> v1.0 Fixes 
  MAVEN-1712. 
o Removed the need to set up a JAVAWS_HOME property. This is now 
  automatically inferred from ${java.home} and defaults to 
  ${java.home}/javaws. You can override this value by setting the 
  maven.abbot.webstart.home property.  

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To automatically install the plugin, type the following on a single line:

maven plugin:download
  -Dmaven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://people.apache.org/repo/m1-snapshot-repository/
  -DgroupId=maven
  -DartifactId=maven-abbot-plugin
  -Dversion=1.2-SNAPSHOT

For a manual installation, you can download the plugin here:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/java-repository/maven/plugins/maven-abbot-plugin-1.2-SNAPSHOT.jar
 

Have fun!
-The Maven Abbot Plugin development team