How to execute 'Premain' method not getting invoked with exec-maven-plugin

Question

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <mainClass>com.test.MainClass</mainClass>
        <arguments>
            <argument>-javaagent:target/final-jar.jar</argument>
        </arguments>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

The final-jar.jar has a manifest file with 'premain'; however, it is not never executed. Can someone help here?

Answer 1

The following worked for me finally. I changed the tag to tag. And it worked.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>exec-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.4.0</version>
    <configuration>
        <mainClass>com.test.MainClass</mainClass>
        <commandlineArgs>-javaagent:target/final-jar.jar</commandlineArgs>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

This works with the maven goal 'java' of the 'exec-maven-plugin'.