described the dependencies of the plugin.

We are looking at using Mercury for the resolution and retrieval of the plugin dependencies so during development we would translate the POMs into dependency information that Mercury can understand, and in production we would have the pre-digested format that Mercury could utilize to resolve and retrieve dependencies. We need to be careful that we are using Mercury during development and production so that we don’t get in the situation where Maven 2.x is...

 Maven2 takes advantage of Plexus' ability to execute a component using a
 ClassWorlds ClassRealm that is populated with the JAR containing the
 component in question and all of its dependencies. Using ClassWorlds
 notation for realms we have the following:

+-----+
      [plexus.core]
            ^
            |
   [plexus.core.maven]
     ^            ^
     |            |
[plugin0]      [plugin1]
+-----+

  ---
  Getting to Plexus-configured Mojos
  ---
  John Casey
  ---
  2005-04-29

Abstract

  We're moving toward integrating mojos as first-class plexus components, while
  at the same time avoiding introducing required plexus dependencies into the
  mojo development model.

  In order to really achieve this, we need mojo configurations (which are
  provided both in terms of static expressions that are just looked up, and

 that currently we have information about a project scattered across the project.xml and the
 various properties files. What needs to be done is to encapsulate all of this in the POM.

 Typically users parameterize the use of plugins, or have custom values like ${user.name}
 for use in elements like the <developerConnection/>. It would be idea if we

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  <licenses>
    <license>
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 all of the models that you specify are collected to produce a lineage and then the super model is place at
 the top of that lineage to provide default values.

 The super model is where we place all the values which we believe to be standard, values that can be shared and
 utilized across all your Maven projects.

+-----+
 m0 <- m1 <- m2
+-----+

 which is transformed into

+-----+

You have found a bug or you have an idea for a cool new feature? Contributing
code is a great way to give something back to the open source community. Before
you dig right into the code, there are a few guidelines that we need
contributors to follow so that we can have a chance of keeping on top of
things.

Some of the ideas are documented in the [Maven Wiki][maven-wiki]
which might be interesting to read and for further discussion.

Getting Started

    currently wrong for execution.

    <<NOTE:>> Do we want to fail when we cannot bind a mojo to the lifecycle
    because of offline/online status? That would probably indicate that the user
    was trying to do something they cannot succeed at for now...so we probably

            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </reporting>
    </profile>
    <profile>
      <id>release</id>
      <build>
        <plugins>
          <!-- We want to sign the artifact, the POM, and all attached artifacts -->
          <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0-alpha-1</version>
            <configuration>