Maven extension for building GlassFish
· GlassFish build depends on properly functioning several custom lifecycle mappings and
artifact handlers. Because these are necessary to resolve dependencies and to run
"gf:run" goal and etc., it is critical that these extensions be made available to
Maven early on during Maven execution.
This definition was originally in maven-glassfish-plugin, which was integrated
into Maven POM through <plugin>/<extensions>true marking, but after
a series of debugging to resolve artifact resolution failure problems, it turns
out that that doesn't cause Maven to load components early enough.
I tried to circumbent the prolem by also registering the maven-glassfish-plugin
as an extension module (via <build>/<extensions/<extension>), but that
apparently confuses Maven to no end --- I get build errors like this:
[INFO] Internal error in the plugin manager executing goal 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar': Unable to find the mojo 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin:2.1:jar' in the plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin'
This is obviously one of the problematic areas of Maven, so to avoid doing hack
over hack, I'm simply moving the component definitions to its own module.
