Maven IDEA Plugin - Plugin Documentation

Maven IDEA Plugin - Plugin Documentation

Plugin Documentation

Goals available for this plugin:

Goal	Description
idea:clean	Removes all existing IDEA files for the project.
idea:help	Display help information on maven-idea-plugin. Call mvn idea:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display parameter details.
idea:idea	Goal for generating IDEA files from a POM. This plug-in provides the ability to generate project files (.ipr, .iml and .iws files) for IDEA.
idea:module	Creates the module files (*.iml) for IntelliJ IDEA.
idea:project	Creates the project file (*.ipr) for IntelliJ IDEA.
idea:workspace	Creates the workspace file (*.iws) for IntelliJ IDEA.

System Requirements

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

Maven	2.0.1
JDK	1.4
Memory	No minimum requirement.
Disk Space	No minimum requirement.

Usage

You could run 'mvn -up' to get the latest version of this plugin, or 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-idea-plugin</artifactId>
          <version>2.2</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-idea-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.2</version>
      </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
  ...
</project>

For more information, see "Guide to Con