Vineet Manohar's blog

Maven Twitter Plugin lets you send Twitter status updates from Maven, without writing any Java code. It increases communication between Project owners and Project users by automatically tweeting build and release status via Twitter.

Maven exec plugin lets you run the main method of a Java class in your project, with the project dependencies automatically included in the classpath. This article show you 3 ways of using the maven exec plugin to run java, with code examples. This approach is useful in many scenarios including migration of existing tasks from ant to maven.

I have been using Maven with eclipse for two years and have found many simple and useful maven plugins and features like automatically downloading java sources, javadocs, running in an embedded container, importing the project to eclipse. Here’s a list of some useful code snippets and use case scenarios that I hope other maven beginners would find useful.

This article assumes that you are familiar with writing maven plugins and describes how you can automatically generate your plugin documentation, and keep it in sync with the plugin code. It shows you how to automatically generate documentation on plugin goals, including documentation for command line or other optional parameters required by the plugin.