Home

Echo-Maven-Plugin

Maven plugin that outputs text during a maven build. The plugin is an alternative to the using antrun plugin and the echo ant command.

News

• 2014-04-21: Released 1.0.0. Fixed bugs, issue 1 and issue 2
• 2014-04-19: Documentation should be complete
• 2014-04-18: More documentation
• 2014-03-18: Released 0.0.1. Starting to write documentation.

Goals Overview

The Echo Plugin has one goal: echo which outputs the message.

The plugin should emulate the ant command 'echo', but with the following exceptions:

• The attribute 'file' is called 'toFile'
• The attribute 'output' does not exist
• The default value for the attribute 'level' is INFO, not WARN.

How to use the plugin

Cookbook

Example

Maven users can add this plugin with the following addition to their pom.xml file. This will output a message at the start of the build. The text in the message tag can be what you want.

<build>
  <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>com.github.ekryd.echo-maven-plugin</groupId>
        <artifactId>echo-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.0</version>
        <inherited>false</inherited>
        <configuration>
          <message>${line.separator} Notice: please use -Ddev to compile without signing the jar${line.separator}</message>
        </configuration>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <goals>
              <goal>echo</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Version History

[Versions]

Download

The plugin is hosted i Maven Central and will be downloaded automatically if you include it as a plugin in your pom file.

Donations

If you use it, then please consider some encouragement.