Is there a way to run a program (a trigger) before packaging a program?

[JavaGeek]

Hello All,
I wrote a maven plugin.  I want to run a program that writes a file in the plugin's source code before the plugin is packaged.

How can I do that?

Thanks,
Steven

[Wendy Smoak-3]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:37 AM, JavaGeek<nospam@...> wrote:

> I wrote a maven plugin.  I want to run a program that writes a file in the
> plugin's source code before the plugin is packaged.

... before the *project* is packaged, I assume?

> How can I do that?

Make your plugin execute in a phase that precedes the 'package' phase.
 The 'generate-sources' phase sounds like it would be appropriate.

http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html

If you did mean before packaging the plugin, then recurse. :)  Write a
plugin that runs this program, (or just use the exec plugin) and
execute it in a phase that precedes...

--
Wendy

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