Question

I want to be able to add a generate-resources plugin such as it performs everytime I run an install (at the compile step) so I don’t have to type this:

generate-sources install

How do I achieve that in my POM file?

Thanks

Answer 1

You shouldn’t need the ‘generate-resources’ bit – this phase comes before the install phase in the lifecycle so just running

mvn install

should include the generate-resources phase. See http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-the-lifecycle.html for details.

If you’ve a specific plugin you want to bind to the install phase, you specify that in the plugin section in your pom. That link shows you how to do that too.