title: What happened to Maven Polyglot?
body: <p>What happened to the Maven Polyglot project that used to be at <a href="http://polyglot.sonatype.org/" rel="noreferrer">http://polyglot.sonatype.org/</a>?</p>
  
  <p>As described in <a href="http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2009/10/21/writing-your-pom-files-groovy-sneek-preview-maven-3s-polyglot-feat" rel="noreferrer">this article</a>,</p>
  
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    <p>One exciting new feature in Maven 3 is it's ability to work with pom files written in non-XML notations. The Maven core now provides an underlying DSL to access the Maven internals, and write POM files in the language of your choice. This currently includes scripting languages like Groovy, Ruby, and others. In short, you will be able to write a DSL for virtually any scripting language you like that can hook into the Maven internals and pilot the Maven build process.</p>
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  <p>There are several additional articles on the web that I've found referencing the feature.</p>
  
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  <li><a href="http://www.thinkplexx.com/learn/article/maven-learn-material/maven3/maven3-pom-using-groovy-ruby-scala-yaml-sonatype-polyglot" rel="noreferrer">http://www.thinkplexx.com/learn/article/maven-learn-material/maven3/maven3-pom-using-groovy-ruby-scala-yaml-sonatype-polyglot</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://mattgivney.blogspot.com/2011/05/maven-3-polyglot-support.html" rel="noreferrer">http://mattgivney.blogspot.com/2011/05/maven-3-polyglot-support.html</a></li>
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  <p>But the polyglot site now redirects to sonatype.org and I can find no mention of this feature in the <a href="http://maven.apache.org/release-notes-all.html" rel="noreferrer">Maven 3 release notes</a>.</p>
  
  <p>So what happened? Was it cut or is it in there and just not documented in the release notes? If it did make the cut for Maven 3 could you point to some documentation. I am also interested in the translator tool mentioned by the first article I linked to.</p>