plugin « artifact « Maven/Ant Q&A

1. How can I download Maven artifacts within a plugin?    stackoverflow.com

I have a Maven plugin that takes a groupId, artifactId, and version in its confiugration. I want to be able to download that artifact from the remote repositories and copy the file ...

2. How to use the Maven's Netbeans Module plugin to create an autoupdate site as an artifact?    stackoverflow.com

How to use the Maven's Netbeans Module plugin to create an autoupdate site as an artifact ? I can see the files of the auto-update site been generated in the target/ directory, ...

3. The plugin artifact has changed INFO message    stackoverflow.com

What does this message indicate, I've started getting these messages recently on Maven 2.2.1

[INFO] Reloading plugin container for: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resou
rces-plugin:2.4.3. The plugin artifact has changed.
[INFO] Reloading plugin container for: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compi
ler-plugin:2.3.2. The plugin ...

4. maven appassembler plugin does not include the current artifact, if called iterative    stackoverflow.com

[Edit] The orginal question (below) is solved. I need to call mvn package appassembler:assemble instead of mvn package mvn appassembler:assemble Question: Why is there a difference? [original] I am trying to use the maven ...