The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and
    pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
    We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers
    and users.
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    The Apache projects are characterized by a collaborative, consensus based development process, an open and
    pragmatic software license, and a desire to create high quality software that leads the way in its field.
    We consider ourselves not simply a group of projects sharing a server, but rather a community of developers
    and users.
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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...

                        -Dgpg.passphrase="<passphrase>" -Dgpg.keyname="<your key ID>"
                        In order to create the key pair, use the command "gpg &ndash;&ndash;gen-key".
                        (&ndash;&ndash; stands for double dash)
                        -->
                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>

h4. Generation of plugin metadata and packaging

To create the packaging for a plugin a special Maven packaging would be created with an accompanying life-cycle in order to create the plugin metadata required and create an archive of the plugin that can be consumed at runtime.

h3. Creation of an isolated classloader