Writing a Maven Plugin/Mojo: how do you make a goal force the execution of other goals?

Question

Note: this thread is about writing a custom Mojo, not using a plugin.

I maintain a testing plugin for Maven. Unfortunately, for almost a year now, I\'ve let

Answer 1

You could have something like the below (taken from the CompilerMojo):

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:jason@maven.org">Jason van Zyl </a>
 * @version $Id: CompilerMojo.java 941498 2010-05-05 21:24:11Z krosenvold $
 * @since 2.0
 * @goal compile
 * @phase compile
 * @threadSafe
 * @requiresDependencyResolution compile
 */

By setting this over your class, it will execute during the compile phase (in this example). The compile phase requires all the previous phases to have executed first (validate, generate-sources, process-sources, generate-resources, process-resources...).

Basically, pick a phase after the one you need (or even the same one) and it should work.