What is the difference between these 2 maven plugins?

Question

What is the difference between maven plugins?

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>failsafe-maven-plugin</artifactId>

<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId>

Answer 1

As said in the comments, this is the same plugin which moved from org.codehaus.mojo to org.apache.maven.plugins . Here is the message on the mailing list org.codehaus.mojo.dev which ask to vote for the retirement of the old version (the vote was accepted at the unanimity):

Subject: [mojo-dev] [VOTE] Retire failsafe-maven-plugin permalink

From: Stephen Connolly (step...@gmail.com)

Date: Jan 17, 2010 3:07:01 am

List: org.codehaus.mojo.dev

I have moved failsafe-maven-plugin to maven-failsafe-plugin @ apache.

This vote is to retire the failsafe-maven-plugin.

+1: I agree it's pointless having the two it will only confuse people

0: meh, I don't care

-1: Me I object and I will take care of maintaining failsafe-maven-plugin because that's the kind of person I am.

If the vote passes I will replace the failsafe-maven-plugin site with a redirect to the maven-failsafe-plugin ( http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-failsafe-plugin )

I am not sure if we need to deploy a relocation pom, somebody with more knowledge of the plugin resolution code could advise whether the relocation is processed for plugins...

In any case, if the vote passes I will take that as approval to do what is necessary to retire the failsafe-maven-plugin

Stephen

PS My vote is +1