Overview

plexus-containers is Plexus' inversion-of-control (IoC) container

• plexus-container-default is the IoC container itself,

and companion tools:

• plexus-component-metadata(-maven-plugin) is a Maven plugin to generate Plexus' component.xml from source javadoc tags and Java 5 class annotations,
• plexus-component-annotations provides the Java 5 annotations for plexus components,
• plexus-component-javadoc provides javadoc taglets to add plexus documentation to javadoc.

plexus-containers' structure has evolved over time: see history to understand its changes.