UltiSnips syntax pom.xml for Paper Minecraft server plugins. Replace the $'s with desired values if not using UltiSnips.

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
                      http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

  <groupId>$1</groupId>
  <artifactId>$2</artifactId>
  <version>${3:0.0.0}</version>

  <name>$4</name>
  <description>$5</description>
  <url>$6</url>
  <!-- Replace with year project created if not using python UltiSnips -->
  <inceptionYear>`!p import datetime; snip.rv = datetime.datetime.now().year`</inceptionYear>

  <properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
  </properties>

  <repositories>
    <repository>
      <id>papermc</id>
      <url>https://papermc.io/repo/repository/maven-public/</url>
    </repository>$7
  </repositories>

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.destroystokyo.paper</groupId>
      <artifactId>paper-api</artifactId>
      <!-- what version of the Paper API are you using? -->
      <version>$8</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>$9
  </dependencies>

  <!-- This developer section, and individually any of the properties within, are optional -->
  <developers>
    <developer>
      <id>$10</id>
      <name>$11</name>
      <email>$12</email>
      <url>$13</url>
      <roles>
        <!-- You can make up any role name. I often use "author" -->
        <role>$14</role>
      </roles>
      <!-- Use the tz database timezone name -->
      <timezone>$15</timezone>
    </developer>$16
  </developers>

  <build>
    <!-- setting defaultGoal means that we can build with 'mvn',
         instead of 'mvn install' -->
    <defaultGoal>install</defaultGoal>

    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>single</goal>
            </goals>
          </execution>
        </executions>
        <configuration>
          <appendAssemblyId>false</appendAssemblyId>
          <descriptorRefs>
            <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
          </descriptorRefs>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <!-- copy jarfiles straight to ${17:../server/plugins} so we can test
             the plugin without having to move them ourselves -->
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.3.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <outputDirectory>${basedir}/$17</outputDirectory>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
</project>