Plugin Details

This report describes goals, parameters details, requirements and sample usage of this plugin.

Goals

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal	Description
help:active-profiles	Displays a list of the profiles which are currently active for this build.
help:all-profiles	Displays a list of available profiles under the current project. Note: it will list all profiles for a project. If a profile comes up with a status inactive then there might be a need to set profile activation switches/property.
help:describe	Displays a list of the attributes for a Maven Plugin and/or goals (aka Mojo - Maven plain Old Java Object). See also: What is a Mojo?
help:effective-pom	Displays the effective POM as an XML for this build, with the active profiles factored in, or a specified artifact. If `verbose`, a comment is added to each XML element describing the origin of the line.
help:effective-settings	Displays the calculated settings as XML for this project, given any profile enhancement and the inheritance of the global settings into the user-level settings.
help:evaluate	Evaluates Maven expressions given by the user in an interactive mode.
help:help	Display help information on maven-help-plugin. Call `mvn help:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name>` to display parameter details.
help:list-dependency-types	Displays the list of dependency types that are defined in Maven.
help:list-lifecycle-phases	Displays the list of all lifecycle phases that are defined in Maven.
help:list-packaging	Displays the list of packaging that are supported by Maven.
help:system	Displays a list of the platform details like system properties and environment variables.

System Requirements

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin:

Maven	3.6.3
JDK	1.8

System Requirements History

The following specifies the minimum requirements to run this Maven plugin for historical versions:

Plugin Version	Maven	JDK
from 3.4.0 to 3.5.2	3.6.3	8
3.3.0	3.2.5	8
from 3.0.0 to 3.2.0	3.0	7
2.2	2.2.1	5
from 2.1 to 2.1.1	2.0.6	1.4
2.0.2	2.0	1.4
from 2.0 to 2.0.1	-	-

Usage

You should specify the version in your project's plugin configuration:

<project>
  ...
  <build>
    <!-- To define the plugin version in your parent POM -->
    <pluginManagement>
      <plugins>
        <plugin>
          <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
          <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>3.5.2</version>
        </plugin>
        ...
      </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
    <!-- To use the plugin goals in your POM or parent POM -->
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-help-plugin</artifactId>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Configuring Plug-ins"