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

This plugin is used to release a project with Maven, saving a lot of repetitive, manual work.

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

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.

Runs Ant scripts embedded in the POM

The Versions Maven Plugin is used when you want to manage the versions of artifacts in a project's POM.

The scala-maven-plugin (previously maven-scala-plugin) is used for compiling/testing/running/documenting scala code of any maven project.

SpotBugs Maven Plugin

This plugin is designed to give you a build number. So when you might make 100 builds of version 1.0-SNAPSHOT, you can differentiate between them all.

Animal Sniffer Maven Plugin.

The Maven Project Info Reports Plugin generates standard reports for the specified project.