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How do I execute a maven goal I've written using shorthand?
Author: Deron Eriksson
Description: This tutorial describes how to execute a maven goal that you've written without needing to specify the full coordinate to the plugin.
Tutorial created using:
Windows Vista || JDK 1.6.0_04 || Eclipse Web Tools Platform 2.0.1 (Eclipse 3.3.1)
In a previous tutorial, we wrote a mavenSW plugin/goal with groupId "com.maventest", artifactId "maven-howdy-plugin", goal "howdy-world", and version "1.0-SNAPSHOT" and installed this in our local maven repository. We can call this goal if we're in a maven project and we call "mvn com.maventest:maven-howdy-plugin:howdy-world". 
However, if we try to call the goal using maven 'shorthand' by calling "mvn howdy:howdy-world", we'll receive an error. 
By default, this shorthand is only allowed for plugins with groupIds of "org.apache.maven.plugins" or "org.codehaus.mojo". However, we can add our group to this list by adding our plugin groupId as a pluginGroup in a pluginGroups section of our settings.xml file: Fragment of settings.xml... <pluginGroups> <pluginGroup>com.maventest</pluginGroup> </pluginGroups> ... After this addition of "com.maventest" as a pluginGroup in settings.xml, I can now execute the goal using maven shorthand. Here, I'll call "mvn howdy:howdy-world", and it now works. 
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