[MJAR-176] Usage page should (only) describe default behavior

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.5
• Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise
• Reporter: Robert Scholte
• Created: 22/Mar/14 07:36
• Updated: 16/Jun/14 14:07
• Resolved: 16/Jun/14 12:15

Description

If one is pretty new to Maven and just wants to create a jar (still the most used packaging type), he'll probably go to the docs of this plugin. This means that the usage page should make it immediately clear. Now it jumps fast to finetuning the configuration.
Instead:

• describe standard folder structure (start with only src/main/java and src/main/resources)
• describe minimum pom (in this case GAV + modelVersion, saying jar is the default packaging type)
• describe the package goal.

Configuration specifics should be moved to example pages.