Disable a Maven plugin defined in a parent POM

Question

I am using a parent POM that defines a plugin that I do not want to be run in a child POM  How can I disable the plugin in the child pom completely   Constraint  I cannot change the parent POM itself

User · Accepted Answer

The following works for me when disabling Findbugs in a child POM:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>findbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>ID_AS_IN_PARENT</id> <!-- id is necessary sometimes -->
            <phase>none</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Note: the full definition of the Findbugs plugin is in our parent/super POM, so it'll inherit the version and so-on.

In Maven 3, you'll need to use:

 <configuration>
      <skip>true</skip>
 </configuration>

for the plugin.

User · Answer

I know this thread is really old but the solution from  Ivan Bondarenko helped me in my situation   I had the following in my pom xml    lt build gt               lt plugins gt            lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt com consol citrus lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt citrus-remote-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt   citrus version  lt  version gt                   lt executions gt                       lt execution gt                           lt id gt generate-citrus-war lt  id gt                           lt goals gt                               lt goal gt test-war lt  goal gt                           lt  goals gt                       lt  execution gt                   lt  executions gt               lt  plugin gt       lt  plugins gt   lt  build gt    What I wanted  was to disable the execution of generate-citrus-war for a specific profile and this was the solution    lt profile gt       lt id gt it lt  id gt       lt build gt           lt plugins gt               lt plugin gt                   lt groupId gt com consol citrus lt  groupId gt                   lt artifactId gt citrus-remote-maven-plugin lt  artifactId gt                   lt version gt   citrus version  lt  version gt                   lt executions gt                       lt  -- disable generating the war for this profile -- gt                       lt execution gt                           lt id gt generate-citrus-war lt  id gt                           lt phase  gt                       lt  execution gt                        lt  -- do something else -- gt                       lt execution gt                                                   lt  execution gt                   lt  executions gt               lt  plugin gt           lt  plugins gt       lt  build gt   lt  profile gt

User · Answer

The thread is old  but maybe someone is still interested  The shortest form I found is further improvement on the example from  lex and bmargulies  The execution tag will look like    lt execution gt       lt id gt TheNameOfTheRelevantExecution lt  id gt       lt phase  gt   lt  execution gt    2 points I want to highlight    phase is set to nothing  which looks less hacky than  none   though still a hack   id must be the same as execution you want to override  If you don t specify id for execution  Maven will do it implicitly  in a way not expected intuitively by you     After posting found it is already in stackoverflow  In a Maven multi-module project  how can I disable a plugin in one child

User · Answer

See if the plugin has a  skip  configuration parameter  Nearly all do  if it does  just add it to a declaration in the child    lt plugin gt      lt groupId gt group lt  groupId gt      lt artifactId gt artifact lt  artifactId gt      lt configuration gt        lt skip gt true lt  skip gt      lt  configuration gt   lt  plugin gt    If not  then use    lt plugin gt       lt groupId gt group lt  groupId gt       lt artifactId gt artifact lt  artifactId gt       lt executions gt        lt execution gt          lt id gt TheNameOfTheRelevantExecution lt  id gt          lt phase gt none lt  phase gt        lt  execution gt       lt  executions gt     lt  plugin gt

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