title: maven plugin ignored from local pom plugins
body: <p>I am new to maven, and cannot figure it out.</p>
  
  <p>I have this configuration for the plugin in my pom.xml file, but it looks like mvn does not use my configuration. </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;plugin&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.maven.plugins&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-install-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;2.3.1&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;executions&gt;
  &lt;execution&gt;
  &lt;phase&gt;install&lt;/phase&gt;
  &lt;goals&gt;
  &lt;goal&gt;install-file&lt;/goal&gt;
  &lt;/goals&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
  &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;
  &lt;artifactId&gt;${project.artifactId}&lt;/artifactId&gt;
  &lt;groupId&gt;${project.groupId}&lt;/groupId&gt;
  &lt;version&gt;${project.version}&lt;/version&gt;
  &lt;file&gt;
  ${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.jar
  &lt;/file&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  &lt;/execution&gt;
  &lt;/executions&gt;
  &lt;/plugin&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am getting the same error when I comment out this plugin. There are old discussions on the blogs that maven was ignoring configurations inside the execution. Is it still an issue ? How can I make maven to read my plugin declarations instead of something else? What does it run when my dependency is commented out?</p>
  
  <p>Error</p>
  
  <pre><code> [ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-    plugin:2.3.1:install-file (default-cli) on project core: The parameters 'file' for goal     org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:2.3.1:install-file are missing or invalid -&gt;     [Help 1]
  </code></pre>