Need way to share code between report mojos and main build mojos

can you elaborate on what you mean here?

If they are sharing types - there is no reason this can't be done with a subelement (eg, like MavenArchiveConfiguration in jar, war, etc).

Other things might be sharable by the plugin context.

Please reopen if neither of these address your needs.

I'm talking about sharing configuration elements (fields).

Here's an example:

<configuration>
<cloverDatabase>...</cloverDatabase>
<jdk>...</jdk>
[...]

Is there any doc on the plugin context? I don't think this is what I'm after though.

Try writing a plugin which has both reporting mojos and main mojos and you'll see what I mean. Alternatively you could have a look at the clover plugin. Search for MNG-1886 in the code and you'll find the places where it's awkward and would ideally require a better design.

This is an issue about code duplication, maintenance and consistency in general. I think the issue's title can be changed to; "How to share configuration elements between mojos when inheritance is not possible".

The example you give about the MavenArchiveConfiguration require the introduction of another level of configuration for users. I'm talking about sharing the top level.

Thanks

ok, there's something else here. I guess its going to be something like MavenArchiveConfiguration, but with a @parameter nested="false" or something like that. Won't be done before 2.1 if at all.

As a side note, AbstractMavenReport already extends AbstractMojo so you can achieve this anyway, but it means making a report of your mojo. A bit ugly.

I think there is an overall need to improve configurability of plugins (eg, validation of elements inside nested types, more sharing, etc).