Running maven goal in multiple lifecycles

Question

Hi, I have a case where I want to run the cobertura plugin in both the verify phase and the reporting phase. I have two profiles and they should both be running the cobertura plugin, but in profile A, I only want to create the xml/html output, but in profile B, I will be generating full site documentation that includes these results.

I have cobertura configured as a plugin that runs as part of the verify phase, but if I do that, even if I run mvn verify site, the cobertura report does not appear in the site documentation. It seems as though I need to have it listed in both the plugins and the reporting section (since I won't be running site in profile A, it won't get called in that profile if I only have it in the plugins). So far the plugins section of my POM includes:

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>cobertura-maven-plugin </artifactId>
<version>2.2</version>
<configuration>
 <instrumentation>
  <excludes>
   <exclude>com/somepkg/**</exclude>
  </excludes>
 </instrumentation>
 <formats>
  <format>xml</format>
  <format>html</format>
 </formats>
</configuration>  
<executions>
 <execution>
  <phase>verify</phase>
  <goals>
   <goal>cobertura</goal>
  </goals>
 </execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

I don't want to copy this into the reporting section too since this is a lot to duplicate. Is there a good way to accomplish this otherwise?

Thanks,

Jeff

Answer 1

Define this:

<executions>
        <execution>
                <phase>verify</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>cobertura</goal>
                </goals>
        </execution>
        <execution>
                <phase>pre-site</phase>
                <goals>
                        <goal>cobertura</goal>
                </goals>
        </execution>
</executions>