Missing goals in weblogic-maven-plugin

Question

I want to create a webservice client from the wsdl using weblogic-maven-plugin

Based on this page: http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/DEPGD/maven_deployer.htm#DEPGD383 I've generated the maven plugin using wljarbuilder from the server /lib

java -jar wljarbuilder.jar -profile weblogic-maven-plugin

I got weblogic-maven-plugin.jar with size just under 70MB which I've uploaded to artifactory and used in the maven build.

The problem is, that when I try to specify goal ws-clientgen, it complains that the goal doesn't exist. Here's the list of goals which should be available: http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/WLPRG/maven.htm#CHEGICCC

but when I run with goal help, I get only this:

[INFO] --- weblogic-maven-plugin:12.1.2.0:help (default) @ myapp ---
The following are the goals available currently in Maven
deploy
list-apps
redeploy
start-app
stop-app
undeploy
update-app

Why am I missing the goals? I got no warnings during creation of the plugin and didn't find any other options for the wljarbuilder

Answer 1

You installed the wrong plugin to your artifactory. The first link http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/DEPGD/maven_deployer.htm#DEPGD383 in your question contains a note:

This plug-in is deprecated in version 12.1.2 of WebLogic Server. Oracle recommends that you instead use the WLS 12.1.2 Maven plug-in

This old plugin is only used for deployment. That's why you only see start/stop/deployment related goals. You should follow the installation instruction on the second link you provided http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1212/wls/WLPRG/maven.htm#CHEGICCC. The new plugin includes goals for development purpose such as ws-clientgen