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Running plugins in child- from parent-pom in maven

I want to create a parent pom which over 100 child poms will use it and I want each child using just maven install running the plugins from parent, but unfortunately it won't run parent plugins in child plugins.
This is my parent pom and my 2 checkstyle and spotbugs plugins are in it
<build>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-checkstyle-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${maven.checkstyle.plugin}</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
<artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
<version>${maven.puppycrawl.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<configuration>
<consoleOutput>true</consoleOutput>
<failsOnError>true</failsOnError>
<linkXRef>false</linkXRef>
<violationSeverity>warning</violationSeverity>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>validate</id>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
<phase>validate</phase>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
<artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${spotbugs.plugin.version}</version>
<configuration>
<threshold>Low</threshold>
<xmlOutput>true</xmlOutput>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>check</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
and this is in my child pom
<parent>
<groupId>org.parent</groupId>
<artifactId>parent_name</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1</version>
</parent>
now I want to use mvn install or mvn clean install to run the child pom and run these two plugins without rewriting them in each child pom, but it doesn't run the plugins.
can anyone tell me what should I do?

Multiple maven plugins to run a phase

I am doing a maven smartbear soapui project. I have dependency for two plugins. `
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.smartbear.soapui</groupId>
<artifactId>soapui-pro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>5.1.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>pro</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<projectFile>${projectFile}</projectFile>
<outputFolder>${basedir}/target/surefire-reports</outputFolder>
<junitReport>true</junitReport>
<exportAll>true</exportAll>
<printReport>true</printReport>
<testFailIgnore>true</testFailIgnore>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<soapuiProperties>
<property>
<name>soapui.logroot</name>
<value>${project.build.directory}/surefire-reports/</value>
</property>
<property>
<name>soapui.https.protocols</name>
<value>TLSv1.2,SSLv3</value>
</property>
</soapuiProperties>
</configuration>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
<artifactId>reflections</artifactId>
<version>0.9.9-RC1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.reflections</groupId>
<artifactId>reflections</artifactId>
<version>0.9.9-RC1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-surefire-report-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.19.1</version>
<type>maven-plugin</type>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>com.github.redfish4ktc.soapui</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-soapui-extension-plugin</artifactId>
<version>4.6.4.2</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>redfish</id>
<phase>test</phase>
<configuration>
<testSuiteProperties>
<properties>
<property>PropertyCode=${propertyCode}</property>
<property>Environment=${environment}</property>
<Gateway>Gateway=${gateway}</Gateway>
</properties>
</testSuiteProperties>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>`
My tests need to have dependency plugin redfish as it supports soapuiTestSuite properties configuration.
Now when I tried to run this mvn install test, the build starts to run with first plugin and fails as it doesn't have second plugin downloaded and later runs again downloading second but fails. I need to have both the plugins and whole configuration setup before I run the goal.
I am new to Maven structure.

Add execute at the second plugin.
For example, if you want to execute maven-soapui-extension-plugin before soapui-pro-maven-plugin you can add this execution:
<executions>
<execution>
<id>soapui-tests</id>
<phase>verify</phase>
<goals>
<goal>test</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
And just do 'mvn install', because you have executions attached to default Maven lifecycle.
Look at the list of default Maven Lifecycle in the execution order: validate, initialize, .. deploy (docs here).

Maven javadoc plugin build fails. How to add add portlet-api dependency

I have a vaadin project and I tried to configure javadoc plugin in my project. I added following plugin to build->plugins section of my pom.
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
....
</plugins>
</build>
When I run a mvn install, build fails with following error.
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-javadoc-plugin:2.10.4:jar (default) on project web-yaan-ui-base: MavenReportException: Error while generating Javadoc:
[ERROR] Exit code: 1 - javadoc: error - com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException: com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException: com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException: com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException: com.sun.tools.doclets.internal.toolkit.util.DocletAbortException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$CompletionFailure: class file for javax.portlet.PortletResponse not found
It says that javax.portlet.PortletResponse class is not found, so I tried to add javax.portlet as a dependency to the javadoc plugin.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<additionalparam>-Xdoclint:none</additionalparam>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.portlet</groupId>
<artifactId>portlet-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
But, I still get the error.
Then I tried to add portlet-api dependency to the pom dependencies section, along with other maven dependencies. Then it worked.
But, my final war file does not depend on portlet-api, so I do not want it to end up in WEB_INF/libs of my war file.
So, how can I fix this build issue without making portlet-api a dependency of my final war file?

Maven can't compile project even when I can debug it

I transferred a big java project to maven and replaced all the libraries used with maven and I can run debug or start just fine meaning that it works normally but for some reason whenever I try to run maven test or install or anything that tries to compile it using maven it fails.
This is my pom file (I use nexus for third party jars):
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>pbclient2</groupId>
<artifactId>pbclient2</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>Name</name>
<description>Description</description>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>c3p0</groupId>
<artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
<version>0.9.1.2</version>
</dependency>
.
.
.
<dependency>
<groupId>mxmlc</groupId>
<artifactId>mxmlc</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<classifier>mxmlc</classifier>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
<pluginManagement>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<inherited>true</inherited>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>add-source</id>
<phase>generate-sources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>add-source</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<sources>
<source>src</source>
</sources>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
<!-- <plugin> <groupId>com.google.appengine</groupId> <artifactId>appengine-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.9.32</version> <configuration> <enableJarClasses>false</enableJarClasses>
</configuration> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>endpoints_get_discovery_doc</goal>
</goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> -->
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.10</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>test</phase>
<id>analyze</id>
<goals>
<goal>analyze-only</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<failOnWarning>true</failOnWarning>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</pluginManagement>
</build></project>
I have tried a lot of plugins and tried deleting the .m2 repository but nothing seems to help.
All the errors I get are
[ERROR] /C:/Users/worx-pc-01/git/PbClient/pbclient2/src/pb/ui/panels/admin/workorders/configuration/namingConvention/GenericNamingConventionTableModel.java:[10,24] package com.pb.hibernate does not exist
or
[ERROR] /C:/Users/worx-pc-01/git/PbClient/pbclient2/src/pb/ui/panels/admin/workorders/configuration/namingConvention/GenericNamingConventionTableModel.java:[192,36] cannot find symbol
symbol: class PbPwoNamingConfiguration
location: class pb.ui.panels.admin.workorders.configuration.namingConvention.GenericNamingConventionTableModel
The package does exist and I don't understand why this won't work like its supposed to.
Am I doing something wrong since I just started using maven.

The error messages suggest to me that either the package com.pb.hibernate doesn't exist in your project (maybe it has been renamed and your IDE didn't update every use properly) or it exists in an external dependency which your IDE has somehow got in its path when running/debugging, but the dependency isn't defined correctly in your pom, and so running mvn clean install fails

Maven2 Binding to a custom Phase

I have a custom plugin that is defined using the pom.xml
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>pram.plugintest</groupId>
<artifactId>pram.plugintest</artifactId>
<packaging>maven-plugin</packaging>
<version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>pram.plugintest Maven Mojo</name>
<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.3</version>
<configuration>
<goalPrefix>blah</goalPrefix>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>src/main/resources</directory>
</resource>
</resources>
</build>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-plugin-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>
Running
mvn blah:touch
Creates a text file in the target directory as expected. I now create a lifecycles.xml file in the resources directory specified in the pom
<lifecycles>
<lifecycle>
<id>touch</id>
<phases>
<phase>
<id>package</id>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>touch</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</phase>
</phases>
</lifecycle>
</lifecycles>
In another maven project, I would like to bind the running of mvn blah:touch to an execution task similar to this
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>test1</id>
<phase>blah:touch</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>mainClass=org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.Main</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
However running this creates the text file but doesn't attempt to run org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.Main
Is this the correct approach?
Ultimately what I would like is to have multiple execution sections in the exec-maven-plugin that are not bound to the default phases. Logically it would look like this
...
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>test1</id>
<phase>blah:touch</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>mainClass=org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.Main</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
<execution>
<id>test2</id>
<phase>blah:touch2</phase>
<goals>
<goal>java</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<mainClass>mainClass=org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.SomeOtherClass</mainClass>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
...
So if I run mvn blah:touch then org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.Main will be executed and if I run mvn blah:touch2 then org.sonatype.mavenbook.weather.SomeOtherClass will be executed instead.
It seems like it should be straightforward to do but there's nothing in the documentation that seems to point out how to do this.

You can not use the exec-maven-plugin for this and you do not need the lifecycle.xml if you only would like to execute your plugin during a build.
To execute your plugin during a specific Maven phase, you simply have to add
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>your.group.id</groupId>
<artifactId>your.artifact.id</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>unique-execution-id</id>
<goals>
<goal>the.goal.of.your.plugin</goal>
</goals>
<phase>maven.phase</phase>
<configuration>
....
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
</plugins>
Please specify the goal in the goal element without the prefix.
Did you read http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnref-book/reference/writing-plugins-sect-plugins-lifecycle.html?