How to attach a maven plugin to a phase by default?

Question

I have a maven plugin that should run in the compile phase, so in the project that consumes my plugin, I have to do something like this:

<executions>
 <execution>
  <phase>compile</phase>
  <goals>
   <goal>my-goal</goal>
  </goals>
 </execution>
</executions>

What I need is to by default attach my-goal to the compile phase if the user has included my plugin already (ideally the above part wouldn't be necessary, just the plugin declaration).

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Put an @phase annotation in your Mojo classdef annotations.

The doc says:

@phase <phaseName>

This annotation specifies the default phase for this goal. If you add an execution for this goal to a pom.xml and do not specify the phase, Maven will bind the goal to the phase specified in this annotation by default.

If this doesn't work, I guess a JIRA is warranted.