Java Maven MOJO - getting information from project POM

Question

I am working on a maven plugin. I seem to have a hard time figuring out, what would be a good way to get POM information from project in which you execute the MOJO ?

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Answer 1

The preferred syntax is now:

@Parameter(defaultValue = "${project}", required = true, readonly = true)
MavenProject project;

You will have to add a dependency for maven-project to your plugin's pom:

    org.apache.maven
    maven-project
    2.0.6

(Thanks to others who have supplied this information already. This answer combines them in one place.)