Find the goals of a maven plugin

Syntax

mvn help:describe -Dplugin={groupId}:{artifactId}

 

Example

mvn help:describe -Dplugin=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin

 

Above snippet print all the goals of maven compiler plugin.

$mvn help:describe -Dplugin=org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------< org.apache.maven:standalone-pom >-------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Stub Project (No POM) 1
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- maven-help-plugin:3.2.0:describe (default-cli) @ standalone-pom ---
[INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.10.1

Name: Apache Maven Compiler Plugin
Description: The Compiler Plugin is used to compile the sources of your
  project.
Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins
Artifact Id: maven-compiler-plugin
Version: 3.10.1
Goal Prefix: compiler

This plugin has 3 goals:

compiler:compile
  Description: Compiles application sources

compiler:help
  Description: Display help information on maven-compiler-plugin.
    Call mvn compiler:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display
    parameter details.

compiler:testCompile
  Description: Compiles application test sources.

For more information, run 'mvn help:describe [...] -Ddetail'

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  1.389 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2022-03-15T19:31:49+05:30
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

 

 

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