Why does the Maven command “mvn sonar:sonar” work without any plugin configuration in my “pom.xml”?

Question

I have a Maven web project in my repo.

I am a Maven noob but still I understand the fact that there are plugins which we need to configure only then we could run p

Answer 1

I could be wrong but my assumption is that this capability typically comes from your settings.xml instead of our pom.xml file with Maven. I would assume that the sonar section specifies the name of the profile invoked when running mvn.

This is merely a guess as opposed to a definitive answer at this time as other answers seemed to be missing the mark and I don't have the time to dig into the real answers myself at the moment.