Developing your First Mojo

For the purposes of this chapter, you will look at the development effort surrounding a sample project, called Guinea Pig. This development effort will have the task of maintaining information about builds that are deployed to the development repository, for the purposes of debugging. This information should capture relevant details about the environment used to build the Guinea Pig artifacts, which will be deployed to the Maven repository system. Capturing this information is key, since it can have a critical effect on the build process and the composition of the resulting Guinea Pig artifacts. In addition to simply capturing build-time information, you will need to disseminate the build to the rest of the development team, eventually publishing it alongside the project’s artifact in the repository for future reference (refer to Chapter 7 for more details on how teams use Maven).