The plexus project provides a full software stack for creating and executing software projects. based on the plexus container, the applications can utilise component-oriented programming to build modular, reusable components that can easily be assembled and reused.

the component descriptor creator (or cdc for short) is a tool that will create the components.xml file from your java code. it uses javadoc tags to gather the information it needs to create the component descriptor.

this package ships a maven plugin to automatically generate the component descriptor file during the build process.