Maven Plugins

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. The difference is that the main resources are the resources associated to the main source code while the test resources are associated to the test source code. Thus, this allows the separation of resources for the main source code and its unit tests.

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

Maven Surefire MOJO in maven-surefire-plugin.

The Loving Iron Fist of Maven

Maven JAXB 2.x Plugin

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

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

Uploads the project artifacts to the internal remote repository.

Maven Archetype Plugin

Versions Plugin for Maven. The Versions Plugin updates the versions of components in the POM.