A collection of various utility classes to ease working with strings, files, command lines and more.

The Maven Source Plugin creates a JAR archive of the source files of the current project.

The Apache Maven Javadoc Plugin is a plugin that uses the javadoc tool for generating javadocs for the specified project.

Builds a Java Archive (JAR) file from the compiled project classes and resources.

Signs the project artifacts with GnuPG.

Provides a maven plugin that supports creating an OSGi bundle from the contents of the compilation classpath along with its resources and dependencies. Plus a zillion other features.

A Maven plugin to create archives of your project's sources, classes, dependencies etc. from flexible assembly descriptors.

Provides utility goals to work with dependencies like copying, unpacking, analyzing, resolving and many more.

The Resources Plugin handles the copying of project resources to the output directory. There are two different kinds of resources: main resources and test resources.

Implementation for Apache Log4J, a highly configurable logging tool that focuses on performance and low garbage generation. It has a plugin architecture that makes it extensible and supports asynchronous logging based on LMAX Disruptor.

Repackages the project classes together with their dependencies into a single uber-jar, optionally renaming classes or removing unused classes.