Useful Maven Plugins

I realized that by now I have written several maven plugins that make my (and several other folks’) life easy and it would be useful to have one place that enumerates them. So here it is

1. Maven SQL Plugin: Used to execute SQL remotely. Often used when a bunch of DDL or DML needs to be executed from a build box without physically having to move the SQL over.
2. Maven Distribute Plugin: Used to move jar’s and tarballs over, again, from a build box to remote machines and optionally explode and establish links to them
3. Maven Authorize Plugin: Used in conjunction with this blog post where I explained the process of setting up a Maven based corporate development and production repository manager.
4. Maven NDCobertura Plugin: Used in conjunction with this blog post where I described a process to ensure maximum test coverage.
5. Maven NDJacobe Plugin: Used in conjunction with this blog post where I described a process to make an entire code base adhere to a corporate coding standard.
6. Maven NDDBUnit Plugin: Used in conjunction with this blog post where I describe a process to test a database based JEE application using black-box testing.
7. Maven Cobertura Plugin-v2.4.1: Used in conjunction with this blog post where I patched up the original plugin to prevent tests from being run twice.