Question

I’ve got a Maven plugin that depends on slf4j for logging. The default behavior is too chatty for my liking but I can’t figure out how to add my logback.xml to the plugin’s classpath.

<plugin>
  <dependencies>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>

allows you to add dependencies to the plugin’s classpath, but how do you add local (resource) directories?

Answer 1

You have to wrap your logback.xml into a proper Maven artifact (i.e. a jar) and install it to local repository or deploy to your shared repository, or use systemPath in your dependency declaration to point to a jar placed somewhere inside of your project, which is highly not recommended.

The reason for this is reusability of your build. Think how others would be able to reproduce it.