the system can't tell whether it has access to the network required by these
  operations.

  Offline mode really means anticipating a lack of network connectivity, and as
  a result turning off certain services provided by m2 and providing a coherent
  way of predicting and reporting when network-related failures will take place.
  It means warning users that since the network is missing, certain features and

    // this ambiguous condition means a user probably aborted
    if (e.causes.size() == 0) {
        currentBuild.result = "ABORTED"
    } else {
        currentBuild.result = "FAILURE"
    }
    throw e
} catch (hudson.AbortException e) {
    echo "[FAILURE-003] AbortException ${e}"
    // this ambiguous condition means during a shell step, user probably aborted

    // this ambiguous condition means a user probably aborted
    if (e.causes.size() == 0) {
        currentBuild.result = "ABORTED"
    } else {
        currentBuild.result = "FAILURE"
    }
    throw e
} catch (hudson.AbortException e) {
    echo "[FAILURE-003] AbortException ${e}"
    // this ambiguous condition means during a shell step, user probably aborted

     2. append happens at plugin level first, then goal level, independently from phases.
        This means for example that adding pluginA:goal2 to pre-existing (pluginA:goal1, pluginB:goal) will lead to (pluginA:goal1, pluginA:goal2, pluginB:goal)

h4. Working with POMs during development