Summary
In this chapter, we focused on Maven plugins. Maven only provides a build framework while the Maven plugins perform the actual tasks. Maven has a large, rich set of plugins, and the chances that you have to write your own custom plugin are very slim. This chapter covered some of the most commonly used Maven plugins, and later explained how plugins are discovered and executed. If you would like to know about custom plugin development, refer to the book, Mastering Apache Maven 3 by Packt Publishing.
In the next chapter, we will focus on Maven build lifecycle.
