Maven Plugins

The Plugin Plugin is used to create a Maven plugin descriptor for any Mojo's found in the source tree, to include in the JAR. It is also used to generate Xdoc files for the Mojos as well as the artifact metadata and a generic help goal.

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. The plugin uses the Bnd tool (http://www.aqute.biz/Code/Bnd)

Maven Surefire MOJO in maven-surefire-plugin.

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

The Loving Iron Fist of Maven

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

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

Uploads the project artifacts to the internal remote repository.

Provides support to access staging functionality in a remote Nexus Professional server.

Maven Archetype Plugin