Logger Name in Maven2 MOJO

Question

Hi all,

From my observation, the logger name assigned to plugin seems to be auto-determined by maven, which is somthing like removing -maven- or -maven-plugin in the artifact name.

Is there any way that I can declare the logger name my plugin will use? Because my plugin artifact id was something like

foo-bar-maven-hello-world

And the resulting logger name become

foo-barhello-world

(which still works, but looks really bad... :P )

Answer 1

I am not sure you can tweak the logger name that gets injected by Plexus (at least, I don't know how to do this).

As an side note, I'd suggest to use the ${prefix}-maven-plugin or maven-${prefix}-plugin pattern for your plugin artifactid, this will make the invocation easier without having to set a plugin prefix explicitly.

See also

• Guide to Developing Java Plugins
• Retrieving the Mojo Logger
• 11.4.3. Configuring a Plugin Prefix
• 11.4.4. Logging from a Plugin