Eclipse + Maven + maven-license-plugin

I'开发者_如何学运维ve added the maven-license-plugin to my maven project which is setup in Eclipse. Now that its configured, I'm unable to find a way to execute it. Can anyone explain to me how you run this in eclipse ? thanks.

pom.xml file.

<plugin>
    <groupId>com.google.code.maven-license-plugin</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-license-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.0</version>
    <configuration>
            <header>header.txt</header>
        </configuration>  
        <executions>
            <execution>
                <goals>
                    <goal>check</goal>
                </goals>
            </execution>
        </executions>                   
  </plugin>

Right click the project, Run As shows options for Maven assembly/build/clean/install/package/generate-sources/test/jar -- i do not have any other options.

Attempted:

Setting up an external tool which I setup as ${maven_exec} (configured in the preferences to be a String Substitution for mvn.bat) with parameters license:format -Dyear=2011 -Demail=myaddress@mycompany.com

Result:

Buildfile: C:\dev\dependencies\maven\bin\mvn.bat

BUILD FAILED
C:\dev\dependencies\maven\bin\mvn.bat:1: Content is not allowed in prolog.

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According to the documentation, the check goal binds by default to the verify stage of the maven build life cycle.

the default lifecycle has the following build phases (for a complete list of the build phases, refer to the Lifecycle Reference):

• validate - validate the project is correct and all necessary information is available
• compile - compile the source code of the project
• test - test the compiled source code using a suitable unit testing framework. These tests should not require the code be packaged or deployed
• package - take the compiled code and package it in its distributable format, such as a JAR.
• integration-test - process and deploy the package if necessary into an environment where integration tests can be run
• verify - run any checks to verify the package is valid and meets quality criteria
• install - install the package into the local repository, for use as a dependency in other projects locally
• deploy - done in an integration or release environment, copies the final package to the remote repository for sharing with other developers and projects.

So you will need to run a build phase that has verify as a predecessor i.e. install or deploy.
Install is available on the maven run menu as you indicated above.
You select "run as > maven build ..." you will be prompted for which goal to execute where you can directly specify verify, and save this as a run configuration called project-verify.

Alternatively you can bind the check goal to a different life cycle phase, check the documentation link above for this config.

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The plugin has the following goals:

• check (as seen here)

• format (as seen here)

• remove (as seen here)

Perhaps in Eclipse you could set these goals to run, but I would personally suggest running them through a console.

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Select your project and then chose Run as and select build... and then type your goals

for example in your case you can do :

license:check
license:format
license:remove