- [version] tells maven what release of this artifact we're trying to produce.
       The fact that a project has a distinct pom.xml should indicate a separate
       release cycle that is also distinct to that project, so a concrete version
       declaration is required.

   - [name] tells maven what the user-friendly name of this project is. The name

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