MyMojo class in hello-maven-plugin project generated by mvn archetype:generate \ -DgroupId=sample.plugin \ -DartifactId=hello-maven-plugin \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.maven.archetypes \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-plugin

MyMojo.java

package sample.plugin;

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import org.apache.maven.plugin.AbstractMojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugin.MojoExecutionException;

import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.LifecyclePhase;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Mojo;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.Parameter;
import org.apache.maven.plugins.annotations.ResolutionScope;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Goal which touches a timestamp file.
 *
 * @deprecated Don't use!
 */
@Mojo( name = "touch", defaultPhase = LifecyclePhase.PROCESS_SOURCES )
public class MyMojo
    extends AbstractMojo
{
    /**
     * Location of the file.
     */
    @Parameter( defaultValue = "${project.build.directory}", property = "outputDir", required = true )
    private File outputDirectory;

    public void execute()
        throws MojoExecutionException
    {
        File f = outputDirectory;

        if ( !f.exists() )
        {
            f.mkdirs();
        }

        File touch = new File( f, "touch.txt" );

        FileWriter w = null;
        try
        {
            w = new FileWriter( touch );

            w.write( "touch.txt" );
        }
        catch ( IOException e )
        {
            throw new MojoExecutionException( "Error creating file " + touch, e );
        }
        finally
        {
            if ( w != null )
            {
                try
                {
                    w.close();
                }
                catch ( IOException e )
                {
                    // ignore
                }
            }
        }
    }
}