What is a prefix and why do we need it? You just encountered the Plugin Prefix Resolution of Maven. This is a feature which enables the user to invoke goals of a specific Maven plugin, by using its prefix. When you invoke directly a goal on the command-line, you could use the fully-featured form of: … Read more
Look in your settings.xml (or, possibly your project’s parent or corporate parent POM) for the <repositories> element. It will look something like the below. <repositories> <repository> <id>central</id> <url>http://gotoNexus</url> <snapshots> <enabled>true</enabled> <updatePolicy>always</updatePolicy> </snapshots> <releases> <enabled>true</enabled> <updatePolicy>daily</updatePolicy> </releases> </repository> </repositories> Note the <updatePolicy> element. The example tells Maven to contact the remote repo (Nexus in my case, … Read more
NOTE: The mentioned LATEST and RELEASE metaversions have been dropped for plugin dependencies in Maven 3 “for the sake of reproducible builds”, over 6 years ago. (They still work perfectly fine for regular dependencies.) For plugin dependencies please refer to this Maven 3 compliant solution. If you always want to use the newest version, Maven … Read more