the goal that needs to be run. In the MojoDescriptor we are interested in the <configuration/> element and <parameters/> element. From these elements we need to make a component configuration for the MojoExecution. The actual DOM like structure we create is of type PlexusConfiguration and is the type we use with the ComponentConfigurator to initialize fields in a Plexus component. Typically this is done within Plexus with the configuration supplied with component configuration, but in Maven we take...