Running maven goal in multiple lifecycles

Question

I have a case where I want to run the cobertura plugin in both the verify phase and the reporting phase. I have two profiles and they should both be running the cobertura plugin, but in profile A, I only want to create the xml/html output, but in profile B, I will be generating full site documentation that includes these results.

I have cobertura configured as a plugin that runs as part of the verify phase, but if I do that, even if I run mvn verify site, the cobertura report does not appear in the site documentation. It seems as though I need to have it listed in both the plugins and the reporting section (since I won't be running site in profile A, it won't get called in that profile if I only have it in the plugins). So far the plugins section of my POM includes:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin </artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
    <instrumentation>
        <excludes>
            <exclude>com/somepkg/**</exclude>
        </excludes>
    </instrumentation>
    <formats>
        <format>xml</format>
        <format>html</format>
    </formats>
</configuration>        
<executions>
    <execution>
        <phase>verify</phase>
        <goals>
            <goal>cobertura</goal>
        </goals>
    </execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

I don't want to copy this into the reporting section too since this is a lot to duplicate. Is there a good way to accomplish this otherwise?

Thanks,

Jeff

Answer 1

Define this:

<executions>
        <execution>
                <phase>verify</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>cobertura</goal>
                </goals>
        </execution>
        <execution>
                <phase>pre-site</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>cobertura</goal>
                </goals>
        </execution>
</executions>