How to remove duplicate content from pom.xml for Maven? - maven-2

Question

I ran into such a situation, when packaging a project using maven, I'd like both the source package and the binary package, and they have the same manifest.mf file. Then I have to write the same entry in both plugin configuration of maven-source-plugin and maven-jar-plugin, like this:
<plugins>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>attach-sources</id>
<goals>
<goal>jar</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifestEntries>
<Artifiact>${project.name}</Artifiact>
<Version>${project.version}</Version>
<Vendor>${project.organization.name}</Vendor>
<Built-By>Shiva Wu</Built-By>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<addMavenDescriptor>false</addMavenDescriptor>
<manifestEntries>
<Artifiact>${project.name}</Artifiact>
<Version>${project.version}</Version>
<Vendor>${project.organization.name}</Vendor>
<Built-By>Shiva Wu</Built-By>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
It's really not convenient to modify both of them while changing settings. Is there a better way to resolve this?
Thanks:)

Answer 1

There is no better way to handle it than what you are doing.
A couple extra things though. You can stick these configurations into a reuseable "corporate" or "standard" parent POM within the plugin management section and then you won't have to specify them again in any other pom. See here for details:
Best way to share portions of a Maven pom.xml across unrelated projects?
The other thing I notice is that your personal name should be substituted with a variable that should be set from within your settings.xml file. This will help increase build portability.