This documentation centre is for those who are developing Maven plugins. This might be for your own build, or as an accompaniment to your third party tool.

What is a Mojo? A mojo is a Maven plain Old Java Object. Each mojo is an executable goal in Maven, and a plugin is a distribution of one or more related mojos.

• Introduction to Plugin Development - Introduction to concepts
• Your First Mojo - Learn how to write your first plugin
• Your First Report Mojo - Learn how to write your first reporting plugin
• Writing Plugin Documentation - Learn how to write documentation for your plugin
• Testing your Plugin - How to write tests for your plugins
• TODO: creating and using custom packaging (like maven-archetype packaging)
• Common Bugs and Pitfalls - Overview of problematic coding patterns

• Mojo API and Annotation Reference
• Maven Plugin Tools and annotations
• Maven API Reference
• Maven Class Loading

• Maven 3 lifecycle extensions
• How to upgrade from Plexus javadoc tags to Plexus Java annotations?
• Using JSR-330 (instead of Plexus Java annotations)