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 Maven configuration management
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 The Maven Team
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Configuration levels in maven

 In maven configuration control happens on four differ levels: the site level, the group level,
 the project level, and the user level. On the site level you can configure maven for all users

   * known limitations are notably that:

     1. plugin goal execution in a child is usually simply appended (at end): you can't try to insert in the middle of pre-existing inherited executions,

     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)

reference to the host application in order to perform its work. This may not occur in the first versions of the plugin API but a resource needs to simply become the mapping mechanism by which parameters are taken from the REST side of the application and mapped into a method call within a given Plexus component. Whether that be the core Nexus application or a component provided by a plugin.

At the very least in the short term the resource needs to know how to look up the component that is required...