The functionality provided by Maven consists of a number of plugins that can be registered and configured for each project via the *pom.xml*.

The most commonly used plugins are registered and configured by default. If we use a different one for our project, or need to adapt the configuration of any existing ones, we can access the  `Maven plugins page`__.

__ http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html

For each plugin there is a user guide and documentation on the different parameters that are accepted by the plugin. 

The Maven plugin page also provides links to other repositories of available plugins, mainly on *codehaus.org* and *code.google.com*.