Welcome to the maven-diff-plugin plugin for Apache Maven 2.
- diff:diff
To use this plugin declare the plugin:
....
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.ahedstrom.maven.plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-diff-plugin</artifactId>
<version>0.0.4</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>initialize</phase>
<goals>
<goal>diff</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<originalFiles>
<originalFile>[uri to original file]</originalFile>
</originalFiles>
<revisedFiles>
<revisedFile>[uri to revised file to diff against]</revisedFile>
</revisedFiles>
<abortBuildOnDiff>true</abortBuildOnDiff>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
....
<dependency>
<groupId>com.googlecode.java-diff-utils</groupId>
<artifactId>diffutils</artifactId>
<version>1.2</version>
</dependency>