Introduction

This plugin is useful in the scenario where you have a generated XML file (typically a pom file) that you wish to deploy to a different groupID:artifactID than the main artifact. This use-case is typically used in conjunction with the POM Manipulation Extension when it generates up a BOM for a project build. This BOM needs to be installed/deployed to a predictable location and not attached e.g. via the build-helper-plugin.

The add-pom mojo

This mojo takes the specified XML file, together with the groupID and artifactId. It will both install and deploy the file. In order to support deployment, similar to the standard maven-deploy-plugin it also supports the concept of altDeploymentRepositories.

The main options are:

• errorOnMissing: By default this plugin will throw an error if the target file is missing.
• skip: By setting add-pom.skip the plugin can be skipped entirely.