I'm a little confused by the Maven documentation - should lifecycles be defined in lifecycles.xml or lifecycle.xml? Even the Sonatype reference talks about these two names seemingly interchangeably!
Still confused about components.xml too - if there's any good reference for that can you post it please?
Thanks, -Dave
It should be lifecycle.xml (see Lifecycle Mappings):
Configuration of custom lifecycle mappings for the plugin, as generally stored in
META-INF/maven/lifecycle.xmlin a plugin's jar artifact.
lifecycles.xml, with an 's', appears only once in the Maven source, commented out as a distinct and never-used file.
Also, components.xml, as in Overriding the Default Lifecycle:
In your plugin project, create a
META-INF/plexus/components.xmlundersrc/main/resources.
See Creating a new phase for a full example.
