How-To write and document a Maven Plugin

"Maven is - at its heart - a plugin execution framework; all work is done by plugins."

This quote is the start of the Maven Plugins documentation. Thus, if you want to customize your Maven build project you should think about using a special plugin. If no plugin for your task is available you have the possibility to write your own.

Software deserves documentation

Building software is a tough process. A lot of disciplines are involved to specify the requirements, to define the software architecture, to manage the data, to test, to integrate and to run the software and possibly to do a lot more thinks. Different processes - from waterfall to agile - try to handle these tasks in different ways and they produce different documentation artifacts.