In some project, plugin is useless and does not create flatten-pom.xml

[tribbloid]

In this project:

https://github.com/tribbloid/factorie/tree/scala-2.10

I have declared flatten-maven-plugin exactly as in example:

...
            <configuration>
              <recompileMode>incremental</recompileMode>
              <useZincServer>false</useZincServer>
              <scalaVersion>${scala.majorVersion}${scala.minorVersion}</scalaVersion>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>

          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <!--TODO: USELESS! WTF?-->
            <artifactId>flatten-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.1</version>
            <executions>
              <!-- enable flattening -->
              <execution>
                <id>flatten</id>
                <phase>process-resources</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>flatten</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
              <!-- ensure proper cleanup -->
              <execution>
                <id>flatten.clean</id>
                <phase>clean</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>clean</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
            </executions>

          </plugin>

          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.2.1</version>
...

But after executing mvn install, no flatten-pom.xml was generated. The installed artifact still has numerous unflattened property references.

Please fix it in the next release.

[hohwille]

The file is not named flattend-pom.xml but .flattened-pom.xml so it does not accidentally get committed into git or the like. Please properly check for this file. For the "numerous unflattened property references" maybe only your expectations are wrong. To me it is entirely unclear what your problem actually is. Without further details I can not help.