maven exclude plugin defined in parent pom

Question

I have a parent pom with a few plugins. In my child pom, I want to exclude one plugin.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

I had a similar requirement to run some plugins in the child but not the parent POM. i achieved this by stating <skip>true</skip> in the parent POM.

the parent pom entry is below

<plugin>         <groupId>eviware</groupId>         <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>         <version>4.0.0</version>         <inherited>false</inherited>         <dependencies>           <dependency>             <groupId>junit</groupId>             <artifactId>junit</artifactId>             <version>4.8.2</version>           </dependency>         </dependencies>          <configuration>           <skip>true</skip>         </configuration>       </plugin>  

The child project pom entry is below

<plugins>         <plugin>             <groupId>eviware</groupId>             <artifactId>maven-soapui-plugin</artifactId>             <version>4.0.0</version>             <configuration>                 <settingsFile>site-service-web/src/test/soapui/soapui-settings.xml</settingsFile>                 <projectFile>site-service-web/src/test/soapui/PodifiSite-soapui-project.xml</projectFile>                 <outputFolder>site-service-web/target/surefire-reports</outputFolder>                 <junitReport>true</junitReport>                 <exportwAll>true</exportwAll>                 <printReport>true</printReport>             </configuration>         </plugin>     </plugins> 

Answer 2

You can define all plugins in parent pom in pluginManagement section

    <pluginManagement>             <plugins>                 ...                  <plugin>                     <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>                     <version>2.8</version>                     <executions>                         <execution>                             <id>unpack-dependencies</id>                             <phase>generate-sources</phase>                             <goals>                                 <goal>unpack-dependencies</goal>                             </goals>                             <configuration>                                 <includeTypes>tar.bz2</includeTypes>                                 <outputDirectory>${project.basedir}/target/dependencies</outputDirectory>                             </configuration>                         </execution>                     </executions>                 </plugin>               ...             </plugins> </pluginManagement> 

And after in parent and child poms you can control the execution phase of this plugin

<plugins>       <plugin>             <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>             <inherited>false</inherited>             <executions>                 <execution>                     <id>unpack-dependencies</id>                     <phase>none</phase>                 </execution>             </executions>         </plugin>   </plugins> 

If you paste this in parent pom do not forget option <inherited>false</inherited>, its disable execution inheritance in child pom.