Maven Plugin Matrix

This information is currently out of date. Please consult the Maven and Mojo web sites for the existence of plugins

  • This list compares plugin availability between M1 and M2, tracking all publicly available plugins.
  • If a publicly available plugin is not on the list, please email the Maven users list asking to add it.
  • Note that in M2, no plugins ship with the core. M2 downloads them transparently as needed.
  • A red X in the M2 column means the plugin is not yet available for M2.
  • We hope to convert all plugins in a priority order (popularity?) and as time permits.
  • We need folks in the community to help out with the porting effort.
  • If you can convert a plugin from M1 to M2, please email the Maven users list to have your comments added.
  • The number of is an attempt to priorities based on my guess at usage.
  • = whether we need it is not yet determined and so should be the lowest priority
  • = Non functional

Key:
M1: Exists for Maven 1
M2: Exists for Maven 2
FC: Maven 2 version has all features of Maven 1 version
Rev: Has been reviewed and confirmed FC
Doc: Plugin documentation is complete
Rel: Whether the Maven 2 version has been released ( is final, but may be Beta or Alpha as well)

If you want to see the code for these plug-ins they are either located at Apache or the Mojo project at Codehaus:

Apache hosted plug-ins

Mojo hosted plug-ins

Maven Distributed Plugins

Rating Plugin M1 M2 FC Rev Doc Rel Author for m2 version Comments Open Issues
Maven Clean Plugin    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11805&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Distribution Plugin   Assembly Plugin in m2
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11804&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven EAR Plugin snicoll   21 issues
Maven Eclipse Plugin Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11797&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven EJB Plugin   Already have javadoc but still w/o how to use apt
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11793&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Archetype Plugin Beta   Genapp in M1
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11807&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven IDEA Plug-in Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11798&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Jar Plug-in    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11794&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Compiler Plug-in   Java plugin in M1
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11806&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Plugin Plugin    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11808&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Release Plug-in Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11800&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Resources Plug-in    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11816&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Install Plug-in    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11837&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Deploy Plug-in    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11838&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Site Plugin Beta   Incorporates FAQ, portions of XDoc
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10500&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&component=11802&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Surefire Plug-in Beta   Test plugin in M1
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11803&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven WAR Plugin Beta   Already have javadoc but still w/o how to use apt
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11796&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven AntRun plugin    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11813&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Sources plugin    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10500&component=11814&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Project Help Plugin Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11817&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven RAR Plugin snicoll   8 issues
Maven SCM Plug-in Alpha    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10527&component=11833&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Verifier plugin Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11815&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'

Maven Distributed Reports/Plugins

Rating Plugin M1 M2 FC Rev Doc Rel Author for m2 version Comments Open Issues
Maven Changelog Plugin Beta Edwin Punzalan Includes dev and file activity
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12007&pid=11062&component=11731&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Checkstyle Plugin Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11791&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Javadoc Plug-in Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11789&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Surefire Report Plugin Beta Johnny Ruiz III  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11801&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven JXR Plug-in Beta fabemn  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11741&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Project Reports Beta   Equivalent with Doxia
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11810&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Changes Plugin Beta   Includes announcement and JIRA
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12007&pid=11062&component=11775&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Clover Plugin Alpha Vincent Massol The plugin does not only generate reports. It has a lover:check goal to fail the build if TPC is below a threshold for example
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&fixfor=12015&fixfor=11991&fixfor=11703&pid=10500&component=11809&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven JDepend Plugin Allan Ramirez  
Maven JDiff Plugin Edwin Punzalan  
Maven PMD Plug-in Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10500&component=11811&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Tasklist Plug-in Beta fabemn  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11744&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven License Plug-in N/A   Part of project-reports N/A
Maven DocBook Plugin N/A   Equivalent with Doxia

Low Priority Maven Plugins

Rating Plugin M1 M2 FC Rev Doc Rel Author for m2 version Comments Open Issues
Maven AspectJ Plugin   Mojo sandbox
Maven Cruise ctrl Plugin    
Maven Ant Plugin Beta    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10500&component=11799&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Jalopy Plugin Johnny Ruiz III With APT documentation
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11734&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Jetty plugin Kristian Nordal Deprecated in favor of Mortbay Jetty plugin
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11739&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Native Plug-in Dan Tran  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11773&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven JNLP Plug-in [Jerome Lacoste] M2 version in Progress, will incorporate JNLP and Webstart plugins
Maven PDF Plug-in Vincent Siveton Should be a Doxia sink. In progress with iText http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ N/A
Maven Antlr Plugin Alpha    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=10500&component=11812&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Hibernate Plug-in Edwin Punzalan  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11773&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Console Plugin    
Maven NSIS Plug-in    
Maven JBoss plugin Jeff Genender Jeff should use Cargo
Maven Abbot plugin   Possibly no maintainer for m2 version
Maven Castor Plugin John Tolentino  
Maven Uberjar Plugin Johnny Ruiz much is already covered by assembly and uberjar bootstrap was very slow. would prefer a jarjar plugin
Maven POM Plugin   We only need the validation goals from this, which could be part of a generic XML validation plugin
Maven JBuilder Plug-in    

Low Priority Maven Reports

Rating Plugin M1 M2 FC Rev Doc Rel Author for m2 version Comments Open Issues
Maven Dashboard Plugin   May have a significantly different implementation under m2
Maven LinkCheck Plug-in    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11774&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Javacc Plugin Allan Ramirez, Jesse McConnell  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11774&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Simian Plugin    
Maven Html2XDoc Plug-in   Could easily make an html parser for Doxia
Maven MultiChanges plugin   Maybe N/a?

Hosted Outside Maven

Rating Plugin M1 M2 FC Doc Rel Author for m2 version Comments Open Issues
Maven JPOX Plugin Alpha    
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11740&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Clirr Plugin   http://clirr.sourceforge.net/clirr-maven/index.html
Maven JDBC Plug-in Jesse McConnell in mojo sandbox pending more features
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11738&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Execute Plug-in Jesse McConnell replaced by the exec-maven-plugin in mojo
Maven SableCC Plug-in Jesse McConnell  
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11742&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Maven Axistools Plugin Jesse McConnell contains wsdl2java and java2wsdl goals
jiraissues: Could not download[ http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?view=rss&pid=11062&component=11745&resolutionIds=-1&sorter/field=priority&sorter/order=DESC&tempMax=100&reset=true&decorator=none] : caused by : Circular redirect to 'http://jira.codehaus.org:80/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa'
Tomcat Plugin