Disabling goals in a maven plugin execution

Question

I have a setup where most of my projects require the xtend plugin to be run both for the compile and testCompile goals. I describe it in a pluginManagement section:

Answer 1

Generally, you can only disables executions with a trick:

Set the executions phase to non existant phase (dont-execute). Note however, that you have to use two different execution ids to allow both goals to be individually turned off:

    org.eclipse.xtend
    xtend-maven-plugin
    2.5.3
    
        
            xtend-compile
            
                compile
                testCompile
            
        
        
            xtend-testCompile
            
                testCompile
            
        
    

Submodule:

    org.eclipse.xtend
    xtend-maven-plugin
    2.5.3
    
        
            xtend-testCompile
            dont-execute
        
    

In your specific case, you could, of course, also use the skipXtend configuration property in each execution to not skip the execution, but only prevent the plugin from doing anything:

    org.eclipse.xtend
    xtend-maven-plugin
    2.5.3
    
        
            xtend-testCompile
            
                xtend-testCompile